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 »
December 8th, 2006 by
Corsarius
In our article about metered-dose inhalers, we said that some people have trouble using asthma puffers, since they have to coordinate the pressing of the inhaler with the inhalation of the medicine. The answer to this is the asthma spacer, also called aerosol-holding chambers, add-on devices, and spacing devices.
A spacer is a plastic or metal tube that slows the delivery of medication from the inhaler, thereby increasing its effectiveness. Spacers fit the inhaler on one end, while the user breathes normally on the other end.
I’ve used an asthma inhaler spacer quite a few times, especially when I was a child. Read the rest of this entry »
December 6th, 2006 by
Corsarius
It’s been quite a while (an understatement) since our last entry — you can attribute that to tons of work. During that period, I feel that my asthma attacks have lessened, thus reducing my need for my asthma inhaler.
Now, that might seem illogical — I just said that I’ve got tons of work, yet my asthma condition has improved. Why so? Isn’t stress supposed to increase the risk of an asthma attack? I’m not so sure myself, but here are a couple of reasons I can think of:
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