Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Alternative asthma treatments

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Weber and colleagues from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma - Immunology suggest people with allergies and asthma have a special stake in slowing climate change: Drive less and use energy-efficient appliances and lighting, they write, and you just might help yourself and the planet.
'Environment matters'
Sadly, though, screwing in a few compact fluorescent bulbs will do nothing to clear up the stuffy nose you have today. For that, many sufferers turn to drugs


Babies given too much paracetamol risk developing asthma, conjunctivitis and eczema when they are six to seven years old, according to a study.
Parents or guardians of six and seven-year-old children completed questionnaires about symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema, and several risk factors including use of paracetamol for fever in the first year of the child's life.
More than 200,000 children from 73 centres in 31 countries were analysed, as part of phase three of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) programme, which incorporates researchers from The University of Auckland.
Researchers found that paracetamol use for fever in first year of life was associated with a 46 per cent increased risk of asthma in children aged between six and seven years.
Current use of paracetamol was associated with a dose-dependent risk of asthma symptoms with medium use increasing risk by 61 per cent and high-dose increasing risk by over three times, reports a journal




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