Asthma

January 3, 2012 by admin

Allergic Asthma Treatment

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There are many chemicals which are used with allergic asthma treatment – but chemicals should only be used if you can’t help the problem in other ways, first. One of the most effective things to do is remove the allergens which cause asthma, in the first place. Some of the offending substances include:

Changes it the weather
Pollen
Strong emotions such as stress
Molds
Dust
Animal pet dandruff or hair
Airborne chemicals
Tobacco smoke
Dust mite or cockroach feces
Exercise
Cold weather or the breathing of chilled air
Respiratory infections such as a cold

Sometimes even aspirin or other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) can cause it.

Cockroaches have been a thing which has been shown to cause the problem. Since airborne chemicals can also be one of the pollutants, don’t spray with chemical poisons in your attempt to rid yourself of the infestation. Boric acid is a powder which is very effective way to rid yourself of cockroaches. Sprinkle a line of the powder along the baseboards, particularly behind the stove and inside back-edges of your cupboards.

You can get boric acid powder at hardware stores, or on-line. Realize that it’s a poison, so if you have children, don’t let them be exposed to that. Also make sure that it doesn’t get on your plates or dishware.

Another way of getting rid of cockroaches includes the use of roach motels. These are little cardboard boxes which have glue inside. The cockroaches walk across the glue, getting stuck. Then you just throw them away. Since the cockroaches aren’t actually killed using this method, you should fold the box flat before you throw it away, then step on it to instantly kill all the cockroaches so they don’t just starve to death.

When trying to hit upon an effective allergic asthma treatment, removing the allergen can be the most effective way of doing that. Dust mites live in your bedding, on your pillowcase, and in the bedroom rug. Dusting with mite powder might be a solution, but I wouldn’t recommend doing that on your bed. Plastic covers help keep them from the mattress. Buy a new mattress, then cover it with a hypo-allergenic cover. There are also pillowcases and sheets designed to not hide the little creatures. Know that dust mites aren’t really the problem, their feces are. That is what causes the symptoms.

Mold is one of the allergens that might be causing the reaction. Mold comes in many forms and many types, but one that can be a problem is penicillin. Remember when taking penicillin that it can get into your house. It has been said that, if you place bread that’s been dampened into a zip-lock bag and place it in the fridge, if it grows green mold, the possibility is high that that’s penicillin. We’ve over-used it so much that it gets everywhere.

Penicillin is becoming a problem in the home, where it causes a thing called ‘Sick House Syndrome’. If you’re taking penicillin, try opening the bottle outdoors when you take the medication. Clean your refrigerator with pure bleach and let it sit there a few minutes. Bleach kills fungus spores. When you’re trying to find an allergic asthma treatment, consider trying to get rid of the allergens.

Saline Nasal Spray Helps You Run Faster— This Is a Joke, Right?

So, am I telling a joke? What is the connection between spraying something up your nose and running better? How in the world can there be a connection between saline nasal spray and running faster? I must say it does sound like a joke, but I mean it in all sincerity!

How can this be you might ask? Well it is a kind of interesting story and to tell it I’m going to digress a little bit into some neat stuff we have been learning about running. I am an instructor in what is called “Chi Running” and one of the things we do with Chi Running is study how to run with the best energy conversation and decreasing the odds of any kind of an injury.

Lots of people every year get an injury of some sort while they are running. My goal as a Chi Running instructor is to eliminate these injuries and eliminate the setting that caused the injuries. One of the surprising things that has come up through the study of breathing is that how you breath can really affect the likelihood of an injury. So how is this all connected?

Admittedly the connection between breathing and injury is indirect but it is still very real. When you breath through your nose while you run you kind of set the equivalent of a governor on your system. You can only run so fast or push yourself so hard before you have to open up your mouth and start breathing harder. When you open up your mouth to start breathing harder you will tend to faster—-going faster when you are getting tired can increase your injury rate. Here’s another neat thing- when you run breathing through your nose your heart rate is slower! So you will slow down getting that sense of fatigue if you keep your heart rate slower.

So what does this have to do with Saline Nasal Solution that can be used as a Nasal Spray? Simple. Lots of people have subtle or not so subtle congestion issues in their nose. That makes it artificially harder to breath through their nose, so they start gasping through their mouth, run faster than they ought to and increase the risk for an injury! If they can use a saline nasal spray before and during the run they can keep their nose more clear and improve the odds that they can continue more of the run breathing completely through the nose!

So if you can help a person breath through their nose while they are running, it is less likely that they will have an injury which means that in the end they are going to go faster while they are running because they are not dealing with injuries. And the very best way to help a person become a “nose breather” while they are running is by using our nasal saline solution which can also be made into a saline nasal spray which can be used while running. I find this connection to be fascinating and so very true.

Learn more about saline nasal spray. Stop by Dr Stanley Lang’s site where you can find out all about saline nasal solution and what it can do for you.