Hi - I am trying to find a place online which sells Ventolin
Rotahalers + Rotocaps. I know these are discontinued by GSK and as
such I want to stock up for a while so I don't have to move to the
dischaler which my GP is offering instead.   I like the Rotahaler and

So far, the focus on staying relaxed while breathing and practicing
nose-breathing and breath holding seems to be helping.  I'm now doing
Advair 250/50 in the mornings and nothing at night whereas I was usually
doing 250/50 AM and 100/50 PM.

Anyone can go searching PubMED for the latest research into a topic. I
particularly pay attention to the 2004 articles myself.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra
ct&list_uids=15020566
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query ...

One of the more attractive features of Buteyko is the back to nature
approach.
On sleep the Buteyko system advises keeping one's mouth closed, using
easily removable adhesive tape if necessary to tape your lips.  This

See: "The Psychology and Physiology of Breathing" by Robert Fried,
1993, 374 pages.  $ 86.50
Fried warns as follows (page 295)
" U.S. government health agencies warn that the incidence of asthma is

I have Exercise Induced Asthma.  I only get symptoms when I exercise.  I
have no asthma issues whatsoever in daily life other than exercising.
I've been using an Albuterol inhaler for a number of years and it has worked
very well.  My doc suggested I try Advair to avoid long term ...

The Kolb/Buteyko issue has always been based on dangers of the method.
There were stories of people relying on it, not having any medication
to hand and then suffering serious attacks, and of people not getting
proper medication attention because doctors found the method

(Respectfully contributed by Richard Friedel)
In view of the increasing number of positive reports on the "Buteyko
Method" to come clear of asthma drugs and to restore health, the
following account must be worth reading.  Although on this newsgroup

Diaphragmatic breathing
In the thread "pulmonology and balloonology" , NorthshoreCEO objected:
"I've already posted ad nauseum that diaphragmatic
breathing is taught in respiratory therapy, and I've posted links

http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=sp07s
w02-52398-dye97fae-w4jf8p:entitypagenum=5:0:recno=7:resultset=2:format=FI:next=h
tml/record.html:bad=error/badfetch.html:entitytoprecno=7:entitycurrecno=7:numrec
s=1
     Thorax (Thorax.) 2003 Aug; ...

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2004/824/2
24 August 2004
Allergy Vaccine Nothing to Sneeze At
In television commercials, allergy suffers pop a pill and play in

I'm surprised that when Richard did his medical research on the
About site, that he didn't come across this:
http://asthma.about.com/library/weekly/aa100697.htm
Then again, maybe I'm not surprised.

Has anyone ever done a study on the effectiveness of Advair 500/50 taken
once per day along with Serevent taken 12 hours later - this in comparison
to Advair 250/50 taken twice per day at the same interval?
And even if a study hasn't been done, if anyone would like to offer their