Asthma is an incurable disease that affects the lungs and makes it difficult to breath. The muscles within the bronchi spasm, causing tightening around the airways. As the airway narrows it makes it difficult to breathe especially breathe out. Asthma can affect all ages, from kids all the way to adulthood. There are two types ...
Fourteen years ago I was diagnosed with asthma. Through the years I’ve been on every asthma medication available, with little to no success at controlling my symptoms. There were even two hospital stays which were very scary. There were days when I felt like I’d never be able to get a good breath of air ...
This year will mark one of the nastiest flu seasons ever. And even if you don’t get the flu, odds are your respiratory system will be challenged. As I continue to battle a case of bronchitis, I find myself having coughing spells that last so long I cannot catch my breath. A simple cough you ...
My daughter has always been prone to chest infections. She was first hospitalized for breathing issues less than two months after she was born. Every cold she got settled right into her chest. After seeing her through two surgeries (tubes and adenoids, at 15 months old, and then tubes again and tonsils a year and ...
Bronchiolitis is a respiratory infection, often preceded by a cold, that occurs in the lungs and airways. The bronchioles, or branches of the tracheal wall leading into the lungs, become swollen. This causes difficulty taking in air. A child who has bronchiolitis may wheeze (breathe tightly with a whistling sound in the chest cavity) and/or ...
I’ve had asthma since I was a kid. I was taken to the hospital at least once every month. I got admitted most of the time and there were times when I had severe attacks that my parents told me that I was already turning blue. I can’t remember much about what happened to the ...
When my son was only six weeks old, he was diagnosed with a breathing disorder I had never heard of before – laryngomalacia. Laryngomalacia causes the airways to act as if they are swollen; breathing becomes very labored and noisy. The child sounds like he is congested even when he’s not. The cartilage in the ...
