National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. National Institutes of Health. Childhood Asthma Management Program: Asthma Feelings. AVA19988VNB1, 1996. The Asthma Feeling video explores the way asthmatic children feel about their disease and ways to cope with being ‘different’. The video is designed to help children feel more comfortable with having asthma and not allow it to cause undue interference in the lifestyle of the person. Producer: National Institutes of Health. Creative Commons license: Public Domain Asthma is a chronic medical condition. It has been defined by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute as a common chronic disorder of the airways that is complex and characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperresponsiveness (bronchospasm), and an underlying inflammation. The interaction of these features of asthma determines the clinical manifestations and severity of asthma and the response to treatment. Public attention in the developed world has recently focused on asthma because of its rapidly increasing prevalence, affecting up to one in four urban children. Asthma is caused by a complex interaction of environmental and genetic factors that researchers do not yet fully understand.[55] These factors can also influence how severe a persons asthma is and how well they respond to medication. As with other complex diseases, many environmental and genetic factors have been suggested as causes of asthma, but not all studies …
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itunes.apple.com Information you can rely on about your child’s health. Check the symptoms of illnesses, and find out which treatments work — and which ones don’t. See the key questions to raise with your doctor, and read about the background to common medical conditions, all in plain English. With so many websites and apps offering conflicting information about children’s health, it’s difficult to know who to trust. The Best Health apps are produced by the internationally respected BMJ Group, publisher of the British Medical Journal, and have been awarded the Department of Health’s Information Standard quality mark. They’re based on the same high-quality medical trials that doctors rely on themselves, and are regularly updated. So, with the child health app from Best Health, you’re guaranteed a trustworthy and up-to-date source of information about health questions, such as: • How can I help my child sleep through the night? • What treatments can help soothe a colicky baby? • What treatments work best for controlling my child’s asthma? Are steroids safe? • What treatments work best for getting rid of head lice? • How do I treat a nosebleed? • Should my child have their tonsils out? • What are the symptoms of depression in children? • Are antidepressants safe for young people? • Could my child’s lack of attention and high energy be signs of ADHD? • What treatments work best for ADHD? Are they safe? The app explains medical terms in plain English — we’ve been awarded the …
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Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, then-director of the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, talks about the potential impact of 2007 asthma clinical guidelines issued by The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. The guidelines emphasize the importance of asthma control and introduce new approaches for monitoring asthma. Read more at www.nhlbi.nih.gov
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In this episode Roy Shaw, EMT-Paramedic receives a question from a student that would like to know how to handle an asthma attack if they don’t have asthma medicine. What are the symptoms?, how are they treated?, what if it takes a long time for the ambulance to arrive?. Be sure to watch this video to learn how to recognize and treat this potentially life threatening emergency.
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The video is a clip from ABC 7 News, KGO-TV. The video details the new FDA approved device Insight eNO system which uses exhaled nitric oxide for effective asthma management, in both adults and children. Insight eNO has revolutionized asthma treatment. Apierons asthma products help in managing asthma for patients suffering from acute asthma attacks by detecting exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) present in the human breath.
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