Allergy shots are the most common form of immunotherapy doctors prescribe, and they work best. They can change your immune system and prevent you from getting new allergies and developing asthma. Shots are fairl
Having allergies increases your risk of developing these other medical problems: Anaphylaxis.The worse your allergies, the higher your risk for this type of serious reaction. Asthma.Another immune system reaction that makes it hard to breathe. If you have asthma, an allergic reaction can trigger ...
Though asthmacommonly begins in childhood, it may afflict people of any age including elderly individuals. Asthma can be managed well with medications, and you may live a normal, active life if treated properly. Symptoms may include: Wheezing Chest tightness Difficulty breathing Dry cough Bronchitis ...
around 224,390 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed, and there will be about 158,080 deaths due to this disease. Men have a 1 in 14 chance of developing cancer of the lung, while a woman’s risk is 1 in 17. While smoking greatly ...
Infectious diseasesthat destroy lung tissue in patients with hyperactive airways or asthmaalso may contribute to COPD. Damage to the lung tissue over time causes physical changes in the tissues of the lungs and clogging of the airways with thick mucus. The tissue damage in the lungs leads to po...
Risk factors for developing asthma include hay fever(allergic rhinitis) and otherallergies(Thisis the single biggest risk factor.), eczema(another type of allergyaffecting the skin), and genetic predisposition (a parent, brother, or sister also has asthma). ...
There’s no history of asthma, Asperger’s or attention-deficit disorder in either parent’s family. Maria is nagged by a disturbing thought: “I sometimes worry about them getting different diseases caused by the chemicals we bring from the fields, and that we were not even aware that we ...
Pain can be associated with many disorders; therefore developing a list of differential diagnoses becomes impractical. Because pain is characteristically associated with inflammation or tissue trauma, every effort should be made to localize the source of the pain in order to focus the diagnostic search...
The findings indicated that ambient air SO2 and NO2 concentrations near home were associated with current asthma for 1 part per billion (ppb) increase with an OR of 1.20 (1.00鈥 1.45) and 1.08 (1.01鈥 1.15), respectively. The odds of developing persistent phlegm for each unit (ppm) of ...
Having allergies increases your risk of developing these other medical problems: Anaphylaxis.The worse your allergies, the higher your risk for this type of serious reaction. Asthma.Another immune system reaction that makes it hard to breathe. If you have asthma, an allergic reaction can trigger ...