My Experience of Asthma

My eldest son who is now nine years old was diagnosed with Asthma when he was five. He had just started primary school and was doing well when he came down with what I took for a normal cold. Always getting the cold (or so I thought) So I kept him off school for a few days and got him a cough bottle, after a few days he was fine, until about two weeks later, when he was sick again, this continued for about six weeks, I put it down to the cold weather, then two weeks later he was sick again. The doctor So I took him to the doctor and explained what was going on, he basically said I was being over protective and that my son ...  Read the complete review

Asthma runs in our family, lots of my relatives have it and 2 have died from it. So me managing to escape asthma throughout my childhood seemed amazing. However, at the age of 21 I suddenly had an asthma attack for no reason. I started with a persistent cough in the evening and struggled through the night thinking it was just a cough but by the next day I realised I needed help. My flatmate at the time lent me her Ventolin inhaler (the blue one for relief) and I got some help from this so went to see my GP. The GP was very unhelpful, amazingly even with my family history he insisted it was not asthma and was in fact stress?! I wasn't stressed one bit but ...  Read the complete review

Before you read this opinion maybe you might want a little information about my medical history - I'm a 21 year old who has been diagnosed as Asthmatic for 3 years now although in my own opinion its been there or there abouts since my early teens and its just never been picked up, before my diagnosis I was hardly ever seen anywhere near a doctors surgery and now I'm on a 6 month check-up plan with a specialist Nurse. So onto clearing the uncertainty about this condition, first off what it does, well not much to be honest, to start off with as any asthmatic will tell you we have to be extra-specially careful with any Cold, Flu, Infection or similar ...  Read the complete review

~~~ INTRODUCTION ~~~ The purpose of this review is to inform others about asthma ... a serious medical condition that affects so many people these days. In order to do this I will share some my own experience of living with asthma and will also describe many of the natural steps and remedies that can be used to keep asthma under control. A little later in this review in order to make a specific point I will also make a reference to a wheezing kid standing at the side of a playing field using an inhaler. I am not saying this to be unkind, however, because that kid was actually me. ~~~ MY EXPERIENCE OF ASTHMA ~~~ I developed asthma whilst ...  Read the complete review

Before I launch you, dear reader, unsuspecting into my own personal experience of this condition, let me tell you what my good friend Jeeves has to say about it. I typed in ‘what is asthma?’, and this was the first answer he came up with (from www.infoplease.com): * * * ASTHMA: chronic inflammatory respiratory disease characterized by periodic attacks of wheezing, shortness of breath, and a tight feeling in the chest. A cough producing sticky mucus is symptomatic. The symptoms often appear to be caused by the body's reaction to a trigger such as an allergen (commonly pollen, house dust, animal dander: see allergy), certain drugs, an irritant ...  Read the complete review