Asthma – Dr. Paul Sachs – Help for the Sufferer – Education for Everyone

Try breathing through a straw ( a thin straw) with a noe clip on and walking up a flight of stairs. That’s the way Dr. Paul Sachs describes the plight of the asthma sufferer. If you never had it, you might not be able to appreciate how it feels. Understanding this condition should help both sufferers and others to deal with it and how a normal way of life is achievable.

Dr. Paul Sachs is Director of Pulmonary Medicine at Stamford Hospital, Stamford, CT. A graduate of New York University School of Medicine, he did residency at New York Hospital / Cornell Medical Center and fellowships with Montefiore Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Sachs is affiliated also with Pukmonary Associates of Stamford.

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READINGS

Parental Stress Increases Kids’ Risk of Asthma
Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma

What Is Asthma?

Adult-Onset Asthma

Wheezing

http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Search/85,P00004

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wheezing

Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma

A new study overturns the long-held practice of treating chronic asthma patients with medication for acid reflux. The study published this week’s New England Journal of Medicine finds that the drugs, such as Prilosec and Nexium, may not do anything to alleviate symptoms of asthma.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1890198,00.html

Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma

In their study of nearly 2,500 non-asthmatic children ages 5 to 9 who lived in the area, researchers found that the level of stress reported by the children’s parents had a significant impact on the kids’ susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma — namely exposure to pollution from traffic and secondhand smoke.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1912184,00.html

Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma

Parental Stress Increases Kids’ Risk of Asthma: Interesting how environment can effect health. Now study shows that the level of stress reported by the children’s parents had a significant impact on the kids’ susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma.

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Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma

Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma: A Study shows the long-held practice of treating chronic asthma patients with medication for acid reflux may not do anything to alleviate symptoms of asthma.

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