Asthma

The following Posts Originally Published at AsthmaCentral.com/Asthma

Asthma Basics:

1. Asthma Lexicon
2. Asthma FAQ
3. Great Asthma Educational Links
4. So What is Asthma? Here's Our Updated Definition
5. An Asthma Lexicon: Important Terms You Should Know
6. Asthma Terms You Should Know: Part II
7. "Bronchoterms" you should know
8. Your Journey Down the Respiratory Tract
9. Fall Allergy Season is Upon Us
10. Evolution of Asthma: More Than Just a Lung Disease
11. Is It Asthma? Here's How to Find Out
12. 16 Interesting Asthma Facts You Should Know
13. More and more asthma statistics
14. Asthmatics:  Here's what to expect in the ER
15. Asthma trigger versus asthma cause
16. How to get help paying for asthma meds, doctor visits
17. Here's what you need to know about hay fever

Asthma Signs and Symptoms:

1. What Are the Signs of an Asthma Attack in Infants?
2. Have a Baby with Asthma? Here's 10 Signs to Watch Out For
3. You Must Know the Signs and Symptoms of Asthma

Asthma Control:

1. What is Good Asthma Control?
2. How to Gain Good Control of Your Asthma
3. How To Gain Control Of Your Asthma
4. How To Tell If Your Asthma Is Controlled
5. Asthma Control vs. Asthma Severity: What You Need to Know
6. 10 Things to Do This Year to Control Your Asthma
7. Poorly controlled asthma nearly doubles cost

Asthma Remedies:

1. Asthma Medicine Lexicon
2. The Top 10 Asthma Medicines
3. Is It OK to Use Expired Asthma Medicines?
4. Symbicort May Offer New Option for Asthmatics
5. The Debate: Albuterol or Levalbuterol
6. Bronchial Thermoplasty: Another Option for Hardluck Asthma
7. Which Asthma Medicine is Best? (written by Kathi MacNaughton
8. What inhaled steroid is best?
9. Can a simple breeze relieve your asthma?
10. What asthma medicines are safe for young kids

Asthma Tools and Equipment:

1. It's Time to Create an Asthma Action Plan for School
2. What is a Nebulizer?
3. What is an inhaler?
4. What is a spacer?
5. Nebulizer or inhaler: Which one works best for your child?
6. Proper Inhaler Use is Essential
7. 20 Signs You're Using Your Asthma Inhaler Correctly
8. You and Your Doctor Must Be an Asthma Control Team
9. Here's All You Need to Know About Pulmonary Function Testing
10. Your Peak Flow Meter Is An Important Tool
11. An Asthma Action Plan will help you become a Gallant Asthmatic

Asthma Diet and Exercises:

1. Relaxation Exercises for Asthma May Benefit You
2. Alright Asthmatics! Here's Your Incentive to Get in Shape This Year
3. Breathing Exercises to Control Asthma
4. Kids with Asthma Can and Should Play Team Sports
5. Seven Best Exercises for Asthmatics
6. Alright Asthmatics! Here's Your Incentive to Eat Well and Get in Shape
7. Even We Asthmatics Can Run
8. Five things that could get in the way of a healthy you (and how to get around them!).
9. Come on asthmatics, it's time to excercise!
10. Here's your incentive to get in shape this year
11. 10 tips to help asthmatics exercise

Asthma Causes and Triggers:

1. Gallant Asthmatics Know and Know How To Avoid Their Asthma Triggers
2. The Hygiene Hypothesis: Does Cleanliness Cause Asthma?
3. Introducing the microflora hypothesis of allergies, asthma
4. Is it a Cold or AllergiesTriggering Your Asthma?
5. Do Thunderstorms Trigger Asthma?
6. Can Eating High-Fat Foods Trigger Asthma?
7. How Are the Lungs Affected by Stress?
8. How Do High Altitudes Affect People with Asthma?
9. Parents Beware! Antibiotics May Cause Asthma
10. Here's Why Humidity and Cold Air Trigger Asthma
11. Is it Possible Exercise Causes Asthma?
12. The Link Between Eczema and Asthma
13. Common Virus May Cause Asthma
14. GERD and Asthma: What's the Connection?
15. Occupational Asthma: Your Work Caused It
16. Exercise- Induced Asthma Troubles Many -- Even Olympians
17. Does mold cause asthma?
18. Does air pollution cause asthma?
19. The link between nasal congestion and asthma
20. 12 things that may cause asthma near birth
21. Watch Out For These Four Cold-Weather Asthma Triggers
22. Does obesity cause asthma
23. Do strong smells trigger your asthma? Here's what you can do
24. Six Common Christmas Asthma Triggers
25. Does lack of vitamin D cause asthma?
26. Does Tylenol cause asthma?
27. Do allergies cause asthma?
28. Is asthma always hereditary?
29. 24 things that cause asthma
30. How can you prevent asthma (15 things)
31. Do swimming pools trigger asthma?
32. 9 Reasons Poverty Causes Asthma
33. Mold spores, another ubiquitous asthma trigger
34. Here's what you need to know about hay fever
35. Tree pollen triggers asthma
36. Why do allergies trigger asthma? What can you do?
37. 9 reasons poverty may cause asthma
38. Why do allergies trigger asthma?  What can you do?
39. Ragweed season is upon us

Preventing Asthma:

1. Having a dog or a cat may help prevent asthma
2. How can you prevent yourself or your child from getting asthma
3. Does fishoil prevent asthma?
4. Can a bacteria in your gut prevent asthma?

Asthma Advice and Tips:

1. How to get help paying for asthma meds and doctor visits
2. Don't Waver! Seek Help for Bad Asthma
3. Having asthma symptoms? Here's five tips to help you decide what to do
4. 9 Reasons You Must Never Forget You Have Asthma
5. 10 things That are Essential for All Asthmatics
6. Tips for Parents of College-Bound Asthmatics
7. Don't be Afraid of Using Advair and Symbicort
8. Smoke and Have Asthma? Here's 20 Incentives to Quit!
9. 10 Tips to Help Asthmatics Prepare For a Natural Disaster
10. 10 Tips to Help Asthmatics Survive the Halloween Fright
11. 10 Tips For Managing Even The Toughest Asthma
12. High and low humidity not good for asthma
13. 19 Tips to Avoiding Allergens That Aren't Exactly Fun to Follow
14. 10 Tips For Raising A Child With Asthma
15. 11 Tips For Traveling With Asthma
16. Here's what asthmatics need to know about swine flu
17. Smoking around asthmatic children is unwise
18. 5 Common Types of Asthma Meds & Why You Should Use Them As Prescribed
19. Being the Best Asthma Patient You Can Be
20. School kids need quick access to rescue medicine
21. 10 ways to improve life for all asthmatics
22. Asthmatics: it's okay to take a day off
23. Hunting camp is not a place for asthmatics
24. 10 tips for newly diagnosed asthmatics
25. 24 tips to manage your child's asthma at school
26. 31 jobs asthmatics should be leery of
27. 36 ideal jobs for asthmatics
28. Pregnant and smoke?  Here's your incentive to quit

Asthma Query and Answer:

1. What Other Medical Problems Can Occur When Asthma is Untreated?
2. Lung Anatomy 101: Why Does Asthma Cause Chest Pain?
3. Asthmatic Kids Behind in Reading, Study Shows
4. Is Vaccine to Cure Asthma/Allergies Too Good to be True?
5. Does Advair cause weight gain?
6. What Other Medical Problems Can Occur When Asthma is Untreated?
7. Lung Anatomy 101: Why Does Asthma Cause Chest Pain?
8. Asthmatic Kids Behind in Reading, Study Shows
9. Is Vaccine to Cure Asthma/Allergies Too Good to be True?
10. Does Advair cause weight gain?
11. A concern for Parents of Asthmatics: Will Corticosteroids stunt my child's growth?
12. A Concern for Expectant Mothers: Are Asthma Meds Safe For My Baby?
13. What's the difference between pure asthma severe asthma
14. Is your doctor out of date?
15. Why do people have allergies?
16. Can you really live a normal life with asthma?
17. What is the greatest challenge of having asthma?
18. When does asthma become Hardluck Asthma 

Asthma Trends and Studies:

1. Were You Sick with Allergies Yesterday?
2. Asthmatics Want Once-a-day Medicine
3. Studies Link Alcohol to Worsening Asthma/Allergies
4. Competition Heats Up for Advair's Share of the Market
5. 4 Reasons Severe Asthma Rates Are Declining
6. Taste receptors found in lungs may benefit asthma
7. Study may prove hygiene hypothesis
8. 50% of adults develop allergies
9. Taste receptors in lungs may benefit asthma
10. 10 reasons asthma rates are still rising

Asthma Doctors:

1. 24 Signs of a Great Asthma Doctor
2. Is Your Asthma Doctor Doing a Good Job?
3. Six Asthma Doctor Personality Types: Which One is Your Doctor?
4. Doctor Anxiety: It Can Make Your Asthma Worse

Fun with Asthma:

1. Hey asthmatics! You are not alone!
2. Asthma: The Appendix of the Lungs
3. The seven benefits of having asthma
4. Seven Ways Asthma Has Benefited My Life
5. Does Asthma Make You Smarter?
6. Bronchodilator Anxiety
7. Santa's Elves Working on New Asthma Medicines
8. Asthma Forgetfulness and Asthma Honesty
9. A Pragmatic Asthmatic’s Christmas Wish List
10. 13 Things We Asthmatics Can Be Thankful For
11. Goofus and Gallant take their asthma to hunting camp
12. The Journey of a Hardluck Asthmatic to Gallant Asthmatic
13. Kid asthmatics love their respiratory therapists
14. How to spot a bronchodilatoraholic
15. Confessions of a recovering bronchodilatoraholic
16. Creative places we asthmatics store our inhalers
17. 10 things we asthmatics ought to be thankful for
18. Can asthma make you live longer?
    
19. I'd rather have asthma if stranded at sea
20. The confounded asthmatic: They don't know what to do
21. 10 good things about having asthma
22. 10 reasons for asthmatics to be thankful

Types of Asthmatics:

1. 11 Types of Asthmatics -- Which One Are You?
2. Meet Jake Gallant: The Perfect Asthmatic
3. Meet Joe Goofus: The Asthmatic You Don't Want To Be (But Probably Are)
4. The Non-Compliant Asthmatic
5. Josie Goofus: The Asthma Parent You Don't Want to Be
6. Breathin' Stephen, the Hardluck Asthmatic, completes Boston Marathon
7. Meet Breathin' Stephen, the Hard Luck Asthmatic On His Way to the Boston Marathon
8. Confessions of an asthmatic in denial
9. The Doubting Thomas Asthmatics
10. Some Asthmatics are Good Actors
11. The "Wet Noodle" Technique Works For Keeping Calm During An Asthma Attack
12. Joe Goofus struggles to control his asthma
13. Confounded Asthmatic: They don't know what to do
14. The Furtive Asthmatic:  The Secret Puffer 
15. When does asthma become hardluck?

Asthma History:

1. Seven Classic Asthma Medicines To Be Discontinued
2. 10 Asthma Myths Busted
3. Check Out These Ancient Asthma Remedies!
4. Check Out These 19th Century Asthma Remedies!
5. Susphrine: The asthma wonder drug of old
6. The History of Asthma
7. How was asthma treated in the ancient world?
8. The history of asthma medicine
9. How was asthma treated 30,000 years ago?
10. A brief history of allergic asthma

Asthma Stories:

1. Prize winning New York Times correspondent dies of asthma attack

Further reading:

1. Start the Asthma Talk with "Alfie's Attack!"

My Life:

1. I am your respiratory therapist
2. I'm a former hardluck asthmatic paying it forward
3. My hardluck asthma story