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11 Tips For Traveling With Asthma

So your job has you weary eyed and ready for a vacation.  You decide to pack your bags and travel to... where?  It doesn't matter, because wherever you go, when you have asthma you have no choice but to plan ahead.   That in mind, I have compiled 11 tips for traveling with asthma I learned... Read moreChevron

16 Interesting Asthma Facts You Should Know

I recently read a book written for physicians called Fatal Asthma.  I wouldn't recommend it though, because it was a difficult read.  Yet it was filled with some excellent asthma facts I thought I'd share with you.   Now I certainly wouldn't want to rehash the same asthma facts you can get on great... Read moreChevron

Breathin' Stephen, the Hardluck Asthmatic, completes Boston Marathon

He did it!  On April 20 Breathin' Stephen, our Hardluck asthmatic who did the unimaginable and qualified for the Boston Marathon, trekked the entire 26-mile course in 7.5 hours, and crossed the finish line.   Stephen Gaudet, who's daily FEV1 measures about 37% of normal, is an amazing asthmatic who struggles with dyspnea on a... Read moreChevron

Here's what asthmatics need to know about swine flu

By now most of us know about the swine flu, but do we know what it is and how to prevent it?  Should we be panicked?  As asthmatics, should we purchase a giant bubble and move into it? Are we doomed?  Will this be another pandemic like The Great Flu of 1918?   Well, no, we are not doomed.  And of course... Read moreChevron

4 Reasons Severe Asthma Rates Are Declining

When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s I was a bad asthmatic who spent many nights in a hospital bed.  I met many respiratory therapists (RT), and got to know some of them really well.  This experience inspired me to become an RT.  No one would have more empathy for these kids than myself.   Yet once I became an... Read moreChevron

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