With today’s effective and safe asthma medications, and with appropriate diagnosis and management, parents of asthmatic children can sit on the sidelines and cheer their children out on the field. That hasn’t always been the case. I remember watching a high school varsity soccer game, and one player in particular. A senior, he was small [...]
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Does My Child Have Asthma?
Asthma is a scary diagnosis. It’s scary because a few children, thankfully very few, die of asthma every year. It’s also scary because cases of asthma are increasing year by year. It’s unfortunate that there is so much fear surrounding asthma, because most cases of asthma are easy to treat with safe medications. The key [...]
Steroid Phobia in Asthma
More children have asthma now than ever before. The chances are good that either a child in your family has asthma, or you know a child who has asthma. No one really knows why there is so much more asthma now than there was 30 years ago. But one thing is clear: Asthma is a [...]