Why Use Honeywell?

When it comes to keeping you and your home comfortable and allergy-free, the Honeywell brand should be right at the forefront. They offer a wide selection of home allergy products that give natural allergy relief, including air purifiers, humidifiers, and…

Is It Time To Replace Your Pillow?

Has your pillow turned yellow? It’s not a pretty sight, nor is the reason behind it. Why do pillows turn yellow? They can turn yellow for a number of reasons, including sweat, drool, oil from skin and hair, or residue…

Is Water Damage Bad For Your Health?

It doesn’t matter if it’s from a broken pipe, a leaky roof, or flooding from severe weather; water damage causes significant problems for your home and property. Not only can it lead to expensive repairs, but it can also cause…

Hacks For An Allergy-Free Hotel Room

Hotels tend to look freshly cleaned and ready for you to enjoy their home away from home vibes. But is your hotel really as clean as it looks? We usually think of staying in hotels as a luxury, a treat…

Halloween Holiday Habits That Could Be Harmful

Halloween can be full of spooky fun for both kids and adults. However, there is a darker side to this ancient holiday that you should be aware of. Many of our favorite Halloween pastimes could be sources of toxins, air…

Why You Should Regularly Replace Your Furnace Filter

Have you ever wondered if or why your furnace filter needs replacing? Do you even know what a furnace filter is? According to a furnace repair company, a furnace filter is very necessary and can either increase or decrease your…

Why We Love Whirlpool –

Why We Love Whirlpool Air Purifiers – As a brand, Whirlpool® and its air purifiers represent innovation, simplicity, dependability, and, most importantly, affordability. Their space-saving and energy-efficient designs are approachable and easy to use, resulting in a solid and lasting…

Staying Healthy Indoors In 2022 –

Staying Healthy Indoors In 2022 – Each new year brings new chances for change, improved health, and a higher sense of wellbeing. This, coupled with being stuck indoors due to seasonal weather and changing times, means staying healthy at home…

The Relationship Between Asthma and Allergies

Many of us might view allergies and asthma as being two very different, unrelated issues but they actually have a lot to do with one another.  The idea that these ailments are completely separate from one another is easy enough…

Top Vacuum Cleaners for Pet Hair

Pets make for great companions and for most people they’re just like another member of the family.  Cleaning up after them, though, can be somewhat of a handful, especially if they happen to shed a lot or you’ve got a…

On the Go: Asthma Care for the Summer

The recycled air of planes, the faint smell of smoke in a hotel room, pollen at a national park: All of these factors mean something different when traveling with an asthmatic, but these worries can be managed once you know…

Mask Breathability and Heat While Exercising

We field a pretty wide variety of fitness information, regularly, but there are two I wanted to go over today. The first is, do cold weather masks help? The second question generally revolves around face mask breathability, particularly with regard…

Study Links Asthma to Shingles

In 2013, the National Institute of Health published the results of a study in which they took a closer look at the link between childhood asthma and herpes zoster virus, more commonly known as “shingles”. In this study, they were…

Asthma Awareness Month 2015

May is finally here, and for many of us, it means a relative slowdown in the tree pollen that’s been plaguing our nose, throats, and airways for the last two months. Personally, I’m just happy that here in Georgia, the…

News and Notes in Allergies, Asthma, & MCS

Last week, we took a little time off from posting. As you may have noticed, Miele is completely renaming their entire line of HEPA vacuum cleaners, and it’s been created a lot of new work for us. But it’s Tuesday,…

Focus on the Medication: What Are Corticosteroids

This week, we’re going to take a look at medications, more specifically, the two classes of drugs most commonly prescribed for those coping with asthma. When it comes to asthma there is one basic, but large division, between treatment medications.…

The Ickey Shuffle – Ickey Woods & Asthma Awareness

Being an Ohio native, though admittedly not a big Bengals fan, I found the recent Geico ad featuring Ickey Woods hilarious. I watched Woods run the ball for years with the Bengals, but seeing him do his ‘Ickey Shuffle’ then…

Studies Reinforce Link Between Corticosteroids & Height

Back in 2012, I highlighted a study that was presented at the European Respiratory Society conference that focused on the link between the use of common asthma treatments and a child's height. In this study, researchers examined the use of…

Running with Asthma – Interview

I guess I would call myself a seasonal runner. During the winter, if I can

Measuring the Real Cost of Severe Asthma

We've all seen those statistics, like ‘Allergies Cost Employers $750 Million Annually From Lost Work Time’ or the stat that estimates how much money/productivity employers lose each March when the NCAA basketball tourney starts. (Don't go by that allergy number,…

Adult Onset Asthma: One Woman’s Story

My chronic cough turned out to be adult asthma tells the story of one woman who had a cough she just couldn’t shake. When ribs bruised from violent coughing landed her in the emergency room, 40-year-old Linda Finlayson of New…

Five Springtime Asthma Facts

Medical News Today reports on Five Things You Don't Know About Springtime Asthma. The article highlights the fact that though 24 million Americans have been diagnosed with asthma, ‘millions more’ may be at risk and not even know it. Allergists…

Asthma Rates at Record Highs

In Asthma Rates Rise Sharply in U.S., Government Says, the NY Times highlights a recently released Centers for Disease Control study that reports asthma rates in record numbers. According to the report, nearly one in 10 children and one in…

Endotoxins Found in Dust Trigger Asthma

It's no surprise that dust in the house is a major allergy and asthma trigger, but the reason described in this Science Daily video may be news to you. I was very surprised and interested to learn more after watching…

Salt Rooms Treat Asthma?

Fox News reports on a wellness center in Manhattan that features salt rooms, which are said to help skin problems, sinus issues, and asthma. Salt therapy, also known as halo therapy, has been practiced since the 1800s and is believed…

Art Therapy Helps Kids with Asthma

Fox News reports on a small study indicating that art therapy makes children less anxious about their asthma. Published in the May issue of the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, the results suggest ‘encouraging initial data’ that art therapy…

Asthma Awareness Day 2010

The spring season and the month of May always are times when allergy and asthma sufferers seem to have the most symptoms. The increase in pollen during these months make going out of the house a problem for many of…

Exercise-Induced Asthma in Cold Weather

Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjorgen, who won the bronze medal in the women’s 10-kilometer race this week, has something in common with a surprising number of people. She has learned how to deal with asthma in cold weather.

Halloween Asthma Triggers

It's fairly obvious that parents with food allergic children must be vigilant during Halloween festivities. Treats must be carefully monitored so that anything containing nuts, dairy, or other allergy triggers may be removed before allergic children eat them. But what's…

Allergen Exposure Linked to Asthma

What may seem intuitive to many who suffer from allergies and asthma is that the two are linked. And now it's official: results from a recent national survey have found that ‘asthmatics that have allergies may alleviate symptoms by reducing…

Laser Technology Detects Asthma in Human Breath

According to Reuters, the journal Optics Express reported today that a new laser ananylzer may be able to detect cancer, asthma, and other diseases through samples of a patient's breath. The technique is called cavity-enhanced direct optical frequency comb spectroscopy.…

The Air Xperience from Xolair: Asthma Simulator

Several pharmaceutical companies had impressive exhibit booths at the 2007 ACAAI meeting in Dallas. One of the more interesting booths was for Xolair, a medication to treat allergic asthma. Xolair works by blocking immunoglobulin E (IgE), an underlying cause of…

Menstrual Irregularity Linked to Asthma

Reuters UK reports that women who have irregular menstrual periods are more likely to have abnormal lung function and asthma. ‘Physicians should be aware that women with menstrual irregularity seem to be at greater risk of asthma and impaired lung…

One Out of Ten North Americans Now Has Asthma

Medical News Today reports that one out of ten people in North American now suffers from asthma. (That's around 35.5 million people!) Since the 1960s, the rate of asthma among North American children has increased each decade by as much…

New Mild Asthma Treatment Options: Once-Daily Inhaler or Pill