December 23rd, 2007 by
Corsarius
It has been a long time since our last post, but we’re just in time for the holidays. To be honest, I just wanted to report on something that intrigues me both as an asthma sufferer and as a coffee drinker — regular coffee drinkers have about 1/3 less asthma symptoms than those of non-coffee drinkers.
That’s according to a Harvard researcher who studied 20,000 people, as reported on Coffee Addict. An excerpt:
In particular, drinking caffeinated coffee in the situation of an emergency onset of asthma can allow the patient to breathe easily. Doctors have recommended coffee as an emergency way of treating asthma patients who find themselves with a sudden onset and no medication for many, many years.
I only started regularly drinking coffee four months or so ago (yes, at age 22, I’m a late bloomer). Coincidentally, during these past months, I haven’t had a serious asthma attack, and I have sparingly used my inhaler. Read the rest of this entry »
January 5th, 2007 by
Corsarius
While searching the Net for more knowledge about asthma inhalers, I came across a couple of articles positing that inhalers and other asthma drugs can cause tooth erosion. Here’s an excerpt from this article:
Some 20 million Americans suffer from asthma, including 6.3 million children, and the various drugs they take — inhalers, syrups and often sugar-coated steroids — are typically taken repeatedly throughout the day. These medications can leave asthmatics with higher levels of enamel erosion and tooth decay, according to recent studies.
From my own experience, I have had relatively well-maintained teeth since childhood, despite using inhalers at least once a day (as of this writing). Read the rest of this entry »
June 11th, 2006 by
Corsarius
This might be shocking for some asthmatics — yours truly included.
As someone who’s been using metered-dose inhalers for most of my life (beginning with my pediatrician’s prescription way way back), I was kind of dumbfounded to know that I could’ve used, let’s say, a dry powder inhaler just as well!
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May 21st, 2006 by
Corsarius
A recent Reuters article suggests that inhalers should not be used to alter the course of asthma in infants and young children.
Come to think about it, my first use of an asthma inhaler came when I was about eight years old (or at least, that’s what I remember); my pediatrician advised other forms of treatment when the illness surfaced years earlier.
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