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Rick Frea

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A Registered Respiratory Therapist and asthmatic
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What Inhaled Steroid is Best for Your Asthma?

Chances are if you have asthma you have some degree of chronic (it's always there) inflammation in your air passages.  Studies have proven the best and safest way of treating this inflammation is daily use of inhaled corticosteroids.   Inhaled corticosteroids are now a top line treatment for asthma proven to reduce inflammation... Read moreChevron
posted 10/03/2011, comments (5)|
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Astmatic, the 1st of supposed 6 children in which one is late, a student and the eye of the family, 5ft 5'
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Asthmatic

how can i live for two months or more without taking drugs all the time? What are the drugs that one can take for asthma?
posted 09/29/2011, comments (0)|
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Does Obesity Cause Asthma?

So much evidence links fat with asthma that some folks like to call it Fasthma.  In fact, I was recently emailed this question:   "What are your thoughts on "Fasthma" a.k.a. "Fat Asthma" or obesity related asthma?"   I recently wrote a post  Can Eating High-Fat Foods Trigger Asthma?  I wrote about a 2010... Read moreChevron
posted 09/26/2011, comments (0)|
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Is It Time for a New Asthma Doctor?

The treatment of asthma is most successful when there is a strong -- and fairly equal -- partnership between doctor and patient. I first wrote about teaming up with your doctor here, and I also suggested in another post that Knowing Your Doctor's Asthma "IQ" could be helpful.   But what do you do if you started to realize that you and your... Read moreChevron
posted 09/12/2011, comments (0)|
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Brittle Asthmatic

I was first diagnosed when I was a year old.  Doctors informed my parents that with the severity of my disease it would be lucky if I made to to age 11.  I used to get adreneline shots at home to save me trips to the ER when I was young, I dont know what happened to that practice, I would save me a lot of trips to the... Read moreChevron
posted 09/09/2011, comment (1)|
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