As more and more families enjoy camping, we’d like to provide you with a fun way to help your children identify allergy and asthma triggers that might be lurking at your campsite. Please click here for a better understanding of your campsite and how it can lead to allergy or asthma flare ups. If you Continue Reading
Many of our patients in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and throughout Hampton Roads are surprised by the fact that in many cases asthma is caused or aggravated by allergies. This happens because both conditions are associated with inflammation. Inflammation in the lower airways (i.e. asthma) triggers inflammation and additional symptoms in the nose/eyes. However, Continue Reading
Asthma is a chronic disease involving the airways in the lungs. These airways, or bronchial tubes, allow air to come in and out of the lungs. If you have asthma your airways are always inflamed. They become even more swollen and the muscles around the airways can tighten when something triggers your symptoms. This makes Continue Reading
As the increased humidity of spring and summer starts to take its toll on people who suffer from asthma, Allergy & Asthma Specialists would like to provide you with the following tips to help ensure your health is as good as possible: • Increased humidity outdoors can result in increased humidity indoors. Indoor humidity promotes Continue Reading
In general terms, asthma is characterized by airway narrowing, inflammation, and a tendency for the airways to react to a variety of stimuli. These stimuli include: • allergens (i.e. dust, pollen, danders) • irritants (i.e. perfume, cigarette smoke, cleaning supplies) • infections • exercise • emotion (stress, laughter) As asthma doctors are finding out, asthma Continue Reading
By Megan Brown, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology – 11/6/2013 Outside air pollutants are a known trigger of asthma, the most common chronic disease in children according to the World Health Organization, but whether these pollutants actually cause new cases of asthma is still being investigated. Research from the 2013 Annual Meeting of Continue Reading
By Allergy & Asthma Specialists – August 2013 Despite the medical advances in diagnosing and treating asthma, the number of people with asthma continues to grow in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Hampton Roads and throughout the United States. Following are some U.S. asthma statistics from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology that pinpoint Continue Reading
The seminar covered: • How to recognize Exercise Induced Asthma and what to do. • Activities that put student-athletes at greater risk for developing asthma. • Approximately 70% of asthmatics suffer from allergies. • Treating allergies results in improved asthma control. • Albuterol may become weight-based because of our child obesity problem. • The consequences Continue Reading