> How many people here use oxygen for their asthma? If you use it, how severe
> is your asthma? I have a dear friend who will be on oxygen for the rest of
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> I'm hoping things will get easier for her sometime soon. I also hope
> someone can help me understand asthma better.
Her symptoms sound more like COPD and/or emphasyma likely brought on by
asthma. The three seem to be strongly interrelated.
http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/stc123675.asp?navbar=hw160872
http://www.lunguk.org/news.asp#199
http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-046a.shtml
It is apparently difficult to separate the three. Try Google and/or
dogpile.com for more.
Ted
StressMonkey - 05 Jul 2006 18:53 GMT
>> How many people here use oxygen for their asthma? If you use it, how
>> severe is your asthma? I have a dear friend who will be on oxygen for
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> Ted
Thanks. I kind of had a feeling about emphasyma but didn't want to just
assume. From everything she has told me about what she's being going
through, it seemed a little more serious than just asthma. Not that that's
not serious enough. But I didn't think that was all.