The researchers then evaluated 1,209 asthma patients to determine the impact of these variants on the risk of hospital admission for a
severe asthma episode in the past year.
For example, severe
asthma episodes tend to peak during the autumn months, especially among children.
«That's because these patients frequently need to go to the emergency room or be hospitalized when they have an
acute asthma episode.»
He previously showed that in comparison to white children, a higher percentage of minority children are not helped by inhaled asthma rescue medicines, called beta - agonists, used to rapidly re-open airways
during asthma episodes.
Contact with a cat can trigger a extreme
bronchial asthma episode (asthma assault) in as much as three in ten people with asthma.
Asthma episodes tend to be lowest in the summer months, in fact, but that does nt mean they cant still cause problems for some asthmatics.
He kept his emergency inhaler and I had injectable steroids on hand along with a mini O2 tank and mask just in case (we're talking real crises when he had his
severe asthma episodes).
Fall Cold air can cause an asthmatics lungs to tighten up, so you might guess that a fall peak in
asthma episodes is due to cooler weather.
Keeping a log of your cat's
asthma episodes can help you to identify some of the triggers so that they can be avoided.