How to Use and Take Care of Your Humidifier
For those of us whose skin in the winter gets as scaly as a lizard’s, home humidifiers might sound essential. But humidifiers are more complicated to use and care for than some other household appliances—and doing so incorrectly can be worse for your health than not having one at all.
Here’s what to know before diving in.
The benefits of humid air
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Humidifiers do their best work on the parts of the body you use to breathe. When the air gets colder, the humidity in the environment goes down. Each breath of dry air sucks moisture from your airways...
Source: TIME: Health - January 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Adverse childhood experiences and related events are associated with asthma symptoms in children - Martinez A, Ye M, Hessler D, de la Rosa R, Benson M, Gilgoff R, Koita K, Bucci M, Harris NB, Long D, Thakur N.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and related events and asthma symptom burden in children. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of baseline data from 147 participants with asthma from a cohort o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 24, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Study IDs Risks to Offspring Associated With Prenatal Opioid Exposure
FRIDAY, Jan. 19, 2024 -- Prenatal opioid exposure (POE) is associated with an increased risk for infection, eczema and dermatitis, and asthma in offspring, but it is not linked to allergies or anaphylaxis, according to a study published online Jan.... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 20, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
University of Chicago Study Determines Certain Gut Bacteria Can Help Prevent Food Allergies and Other Gastrointestinal Illnesses
With further research, clinical laboratories may soon be performing macrobiotic testing to measure certain bacterial levels in patients’ gut bacteria New insights from the University of Chicago (UChicago) into how human microbiota (aka, gut bacteria) play a role in food allergies has the potential to change the way a number of gastrointestinal health conditions are […]
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Source: Dark Daily - January 19, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing Precision Medicine anaphylactic response anatomic pathology antigen Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America butyrate Cathryn Nagler PhD circulatory system Source Type: news
Opioid Exposure in Womb Tied to Kids' Risk for Eczema, Dermatitis, and Asthma
(MedPage Today) -- Opioid use during pregnancy for pain or opioid use disorder (OUD) was associated with an increased risk for hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits for immune-related conditions in exposed offspring, a retrospective... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Mom's Opioid Use in Pregnancy Raises Child's Asthma, Eczema Risk
THURSDAY, Jan. 18, 2024 -- Fetal exposure to opioids may change a baby ' s immune system, triggering a rise in risks for eczema and asthma through early childhood, new research shows.Children born to women who used opioids during pregnancy had much... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 18, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
A Surgeon General Report Once Cleared the Air About Smoking. Is It Time for One on Vaping?
NEW YORK — Sixty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general released a report that settled a longstanding public debate about the dangers of cigarettes and led to huge changes in smoking in America.
Today, some public health experts say a similar report could help clear the air about vaping.
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Many U.S. adults believe nicotine vaping is as harmful as — or more dangerous than — cigarette smoking. That’s wrong. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and most scientists agree that, based on available evidence, electronic cigarettes are far less danger...
Source: TIME: Health - January 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe / AP Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
Are Your Patients Prepared to Switch Their Asthma Inhaler?
(MedPage Today) -- If you have not heard already, one of the most popular inhalers has been discontinued by its manufacturer since January 1. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has stopped producing Flovent, which comes as a metered-dose inhaler (Flovent HFA... (Source: MedPage Today Allergy)
Source: MedPage Today Allergy - January 12, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Researchers Target Genetic Influence on Asthma and Allergy Researchers Target Genetic Influence on Asthma and Allergy
Indiana University lab received support from the National Institutes of Health to expand research on allergy risk factors.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - January 12, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Pulmonary Medicine Source Type: news
Asthma patients fail to receive recommended follow-up care after hospitalisation
Over eighty per cent of asthma patients hospitalised following an asthma attack are not getting appropriate follow-up care, a new study has found. Data collected by the University of Birmingham shows that only eighteen per cent of hospitalised asthma patients had a GP appointment within the recommended forty-eight-hour period. A significant majority of patients do... Read moreThe post Asthma patients fail to receive recommended follow-up care after hospitalisation appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - January 11, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Carolyn Scott Tags: Respiratory asthma Health inequalities severe asthma Source Type: news
Deadly VA Clinic Lapses; Asthma Drug Risky in Kids; Invisible HHS Secretary?
(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
Deadly VA Clinic Lapses
Poor mental healthcare at one Veterans Affairs clinic in Chico... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 10, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Tapering of Inhaled Steroids Feasible for Asthma Controlled With Benralizumab
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10, 2024 -- For patients with severe eosinophilic asthma controlled on benralizumab, tapering of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) is feasible and is not associated with worse asthma control, according to a study published online Dec. 7... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 10, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Childhood asthma drug linked to dozens of suicides and frightening hallucinations of 'red-eyed demons' is STILL being prescribed to 12m Americans each year - despite FDA warning in 2020
Nearly two years after the FDA added a black box warning to Singulair, millions of Americans continue to take the drug. Doctors are urging patients to be aware of the risks. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Young asthma-focused drug developer in billion-dollar deal with GSK
The potential buyout is one of a handful to emerge during this week's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
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Mind over asthma | Science Signaling
JAK1 in the vagal sensory nerves that innervate lungs suppresses allergic inflammation and asthma. (Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment)
Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - January 9, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
