Things To Know About Allergies And Asthma

By Dr. Chris Cowell

Allergies and asthma may have related reactions but they are really different. Some of the body’s chemicals that are involved in allergies are also involved in asthma. An allergy is an inflammatory reaction to a specific substance. The allergic reactions involve nasal membranes, the eyes, the skin, the tongue, and the breathing airways in severe reactions. The symptoms of allergy includes itchy, stuffy or runny nose, sneezing, red, itchy irritated skin, and burning or watery eyes.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes difficulty in breathing. Just like allergies, the substances that trigger allergies can also trigger asthma attacks. If you notice indications of allergy, it means that irritants are present in the air and it can activate asthma symptoms which can lead to asthma attacks. If you have asthma and allergy, your immune system will react to fight off the allergens. Allergens are substances that set off the allergy reaction. The chronic swelling of airways causes the airways to be narrowed causing asthmatic people the difficulty in breathing.

Asthma as a disease is incurable, the treatment can go on for a long time but you should not be worry because it is not contagious. You can have asthma as young as you were a toddler until you reach adulthood. There are lucky individuals who will not experience asthma attacks anymore once they reached adolescence, however there is a big chance of asthma attacks again when they reached adulthood especially if they are expose to smoke or other irritants that trigger asthma symptoms.

Asthma and allergies go hand-in-hand. There are several types of asthma, one of these is allergic asthma that is triggered by allergens such as pollen or mold spores. During an asthma episode, the band of muscle that surround the airways tighten causing them to narrow, the lining of the breathe ways becomes swollen. These will result to asthma symptoms such as frequent cough; breathe shortness, wheezing, and chest tightness.

It doesn’t mean that if you are an allergic person you have the same symptoms every time. You may experience different symptoms every time, or may not experience all the symptoms at all times. Like allergy indications, asthma symptoms may also change from one asthma attack to the next. An attack may be acute during the first attack and chronic during the next attack. If you suffer from allergies and asthma, knowing the allergy-causing substance is the best way to reduce your chance from asthma attacks. As they say, “Prevention is better than cure”, asking help from a doctor is also beneficial to recognize and treat even mild symptoms to help prevent severe asthma attacks and keep your asthma in control.

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About Asthma

Asthma is a lung condition that causes difficulty breathing, and it’s common among kids and teens. Symptoms include coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Anyone can have asthma, even infants, and the tendency to develop the condition is often inherited.
Asthma affects the bronchial tubes, or airways. When someone breathes normally, air is taken in through the nose or mouth and then goes into the trachea (windpipe), passing through the bronchial tubes, into the lungs, and finally back out again.
But people with asthma have inflamed airways that produce lots of thick mucus. They’re also overly sensitive, or hyperreactive, to certain things, like exercise, dust, or cigarette smoke. This hyperreactivity causes the smooth muscle that surrounds the airways to tighten up. The combination of airway inflammation and muscle tightening narrows the airways and makes it difficult for air to move through.

More than 23 million people have asthma in the United States. In fact, it’s the No. 1 reason kids chronically miss school. And flare-ups are the most common cause of pediatric emergency room visits due to a chronic illness.

Some kids have only mild, occasional symptoms or only show symptoms after exercising. Others have severe asthma that, left untreated, can dramatically limit how active they are and cause changes in lung function.
But thanks to new medications and treatment strategies, kids with asthma no longer need to sit on the sidelines, and parents no longer need to worry constantly about their child’s well being.
With patient education and the right asthma management plan, families can learn to control symptoms and asthma flare-ups more independently, allowing kids to do just about anything they want.

More discussion about masks - part 2

I would like to thank Sealed Air -Cryovac for inviting me to speak with its employees about allergic diseases today. One of the best parts of any interaction is the questions I get. Here are some of the questions and answers.

1. What does the number 95 in N95 stand for? I have written previously about masks. In 1995, the federal government issued new standards for the certification of respiratory protective devices (a.k.a. masks and respirators). The percentage penetration of particles with a maximum size of 0.3 µm median diameter was measured using the protective devices. 95 means that 95% of particles were blocked by the protective device. Similarly 99 means 99% of particles were blocked by the protective device. 100 means that 99.97% of particles were blocked by the protective device.

2. How good is the 0.3 µm standard? Very good. For comparison, human hair is 80-100 microns, dust mite droppings average 10-24 microns, pollen grains average 24-50 microns, mold spores range from 3-100 microns, cat dander’s mean is 2.5 microns (range 1-10 microns).

3. What is the best type of mask to get? There are several important factors: cost, durability, activity, need for high degree of filtration 100 vs. 99 vs. 95, and often overlooked fit. Without a tight seal, air will leak around the protective device and completely ruin the intent – protection from airborne particles. This is often overlooked, even in the medical setting. Some favor the premolded white or blue masks, while others like the masks that open up like a folding fan over the mouth and nose. It does not matter which you choose, so long as there is NO air leakage. Make sure of this! Thanks to Mr. Mungo for reminding me of this critically important point.

4. What do I think about ozone generators? They are potentially life-threatening devices. Ozone is a highly toxic gas. At no time would I ever volunteer to be around ozone. On earth, it can found fortunately in a few places: due to lightning, on hot and smoggy days, around an actylene torch, and in the earth’s outer atmosphere. Recall, when the Environmental Proectection Agency (E.P.A.) measures high counts of ozone, the EPA issues a warning for people to stay indoors with the a/c running, so as not to breathe the ozone. Recall the ozone layer protects the earth from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, which would otherwise kill us all.

5. An aside, I’ll be writing more about air filters in the future.

If you have questions, ask your doctor!

Facts about Asthma!

British scientists claim to have identified a key element in the development of chronic asthma. Remodeling occurs when the small airways in the lungs of people change gradually with time as their lungs respond to the presence of particles such as dust, pollen and mould in the air they breathe. Scientists from King’s College London and Imperial College London said that an important aspect of airway remodeling is changes to the muscle cells, which line the airways.

In people with asthma, these cells tend to multiply and become larger, increasing their ability to squeeze the airways and cause breathing difficulties. There is no known way of reversing airway remodeling once it has occurred. “It is widely believed that this remodeling in Asthma is in large part responsible for the chronicity of the disease,” said Professor Tak Lee, Head of the Division of Asthma and Allergy Research at King’s, who led the research.

“There are many features responsible for remodeling but a key component of this process involves an increased amount of smooth muscle in the airways,” Lee added. The study appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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What Your Doctor Hasn"t Told You About Vaccinations Could Put Your Child at Risk for Autism, Asthma, Allergies, Diabetes or Cancer

Attention Parents:

What Your Doctor Hasn’t Told You About Vaccinations Could Put Your Child at Risk for Autism, Asthma, Allergies, Diabetes or Cancer.

Get the facts about vaccine risks
before you take any steps to vaccinate your child!

 

From the Desk of Tim O’Shea DC

Author and Instructor, Childhood Immunology

 

Dear Concerned Parent,

Do you have doubts whether vaccines can really protect your child from illness or disease? Do you worry that your child could become autistic, or develop asthma, allergies or even a fatal childhood disease, like Sudden Infant Death syndrome? These are not theories. Millions of American infants have these conditions today. Yet most other countries recommend less than half the vaccines we do.

What you’re about to read may come as a shock. It did for me when I first began to research vaccines and their effect on the body over a decade ago. Hundreds of hours of digging into the medical literature and checking the facts compelled me to speak out.

Much of what I discovered was in conflict with the way most of us are taught to care for our children. Let’s face it — most parents agree to have their newborn child vaccinated and believe it is the right thing to do. It’s what their parents did, and it’s what their doctors recommend. Once they start, the child goes on to receive numerous vaccinations year after year, up through their teens. All the while you, the parent, continue to think you’re doing the right thing.

Well. . .as it turns out, it’s often a mistake.

What you’ll see when you peek behind the curtain of the multi-billion dollar drug and vaccine cartels should scare the life out of you. . .because your child is being put in harm’s way more than you are being told.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
comments on the cover-up:
Vaccines, Mercury/ thimerosal & Autism
(4 min.)
To replay video, click the arrow or drag the left white ball to the left.

 

The Harsh Truth

Whether or not to vaccinate is a decision only you can make.

Sadly, it’s not likely you can turn to your pediatrician for help with this decision. You see, most doctors have staked their reputations and their financial well-being on the assumed safety and effectiveness of vaccines. They are bound by their profession to promote vaccinations.

But there’s another point of view, just as valid.

You’re about to discover that

 

vaccination is big business and big money for doctors, for the drug companies and for the government; vaccines are by no means proven safe, as you are being led to believe.

You deserve to know the facts. 

You deserve to have access to the information being put forth by doctors, scientists, and researchers all over the world who are speaking out today — the facts can no longer be denied.

Some top scientists in the field of human genetics go so far as to say it’s an outright assault on children and the future of the human race.

One Canadian physician, Dr. Guylaine Lanctot, puts it this way:

 

“The medical authorities keep lying. Vaccination has been an assault on the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illnesses. We are actually changing our genetic code through vaccination. . .100 years from now we will know that the biggest crime against humanity was vaccines.”

Renowned author and pediatrician, Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, is equally direct:

 

“The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization. Much of what you have been led to believe about immunization simply isn’t true. If I were to follow my deeper convictions, I would urge you to reject all inoculations for your child.”

He goes on to say: 

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease. If immunizations were responsible for the disappearance of these diseases in the U.S., one must ask why they disappeared simultaneously in Europe, where mass immunizations did not take place.”

 

 

No Proof of Safety

It might be shocking for you to hear this for the first time, but when you read about the history of vaccines and understand the financial forces that are in play, you may begin see the drug industry as an enormous machine, feeding off endless government funding for vaccines.

Remarkably, vaccination has never been clinically proven to be effective in preventing disease! I find this to be one of the most shocking discoveries of all, and so will you.

The double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, the gold standard of organized medicine, has never been used to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. No risk-to-benefit studies have ever been done. Vaccines remain scientifically unproven!

So while health authorities loudly credit vaccines for reducing disease and continually send the message that vaccines are safe, and necessary, the science isn’t there.

Many assumptions made by local clinics are directly contradicted by the most well regarded government statistics, published medical studies and the opinions of credible and highly respected research scientists all over the world.

In addition, reports coming out of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are finding the same contradictions.

Who Really Cares about Your Child?

Is it the vaccine manufacturers, who are behind virtually everything you have ever been told about the safety of vaccines? Dr. Samuel Katz, developer of the measles vaccine states, “Government doesn’t fund clinical studies of vaccines. Industry does.”

The current number of vaccinations your children will receive by the time they are 18 years old is an astounding 68!

And more vaccinations are on their way.

That is one gigantic cash industry, coming in at around $ 50 billion dollar annually.

Australian researcher Viera Scheibner, PhD, after investigating some 60,000 pages of medical literature on vaccination, summarized it:

 

“Immunizations, including those practiced on babies, not only did not prevent any infectious diseases; they caused more suffering and more deaths than has any other human activity in the entire history of medical intervention.”

Rep. Dan Burton & Dr. Andrew Wakefield
comment on the cover-up:
Vaccines, Mercury/ thimerosal & Autism
(4 min.)

 

But you can avoid this damage.

 

The One Resource They Don’t Want You to Read

I decided early on that I would take a stand for the truth regarding vaccines, no matter what the cost. I was determined to write a book that was referenced from the most legitimate, scientific sources, so that as a parent you could make the most informed decision.

Drug companies support medical journals with their advertising. FDA Advisory Committee members admit openly that they have financial ties to the vaccine manufacturers. It’s no secret.

What’s more, Congress passed a law exempting the liability of these companies. In other words, if your child is damaged or dies after vaccination, you can’t sue the vaccine company.

Now parents and people everywhere can have access to the facts. After 10 years of meticulous research, I created The Vaccine Seminar and the textbook for the seminar:

Announcing the new book. . .

Vaccination
Is Not Immunization
3rd Edition – 2013