I was swimming in the Atlantic Ocean on a beach in Half Moon Cey when my mind started to wander to my asthma column. I wondered what life would be like if our Cruise Ship -- the Carnival Ecstasy -- sunk and I was forced to swim out here in the ocean, under the baking hot sun, for several hours or days.
The answer came easy for me because I have asthma, and in the pocket of my swimsuit was an albuterol inhaler. It's water proof and it floats. Sure I might get a major sun burn, and...
COPD and asthma, although different, do have similarities – and they tend to run in families. If you have COPD you should learn about... Read more »
There may come a time in the course of your life that you may need to take your asthmatic lungs to the emergency room. Many of us have... Read more »
When you're anxious, or after a panic attack, I'm sure that you can tell me what you are feeling and and perhaps, you can even describe... Read more »
For more than 30 years, we've known about the connection between asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease, also known as GERD. GERD is... Read more »
I went on a field trip to Poughkeepsie New York to the Culinary Institute of America last week. I went to meet a Chef colleague and have... Read more »
These are the asthmatics who, regardless of how compliant they are with their preventative medicines, still have bad asthma episodes. We don't know... Read more »
Stress can wreck havoc on your health. And if you have asthma, you no doubt know that stress can cause asthma symptoms. The signs and symptoms of... Read more »
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