My 3 year old son has a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide Asthma. It is
considered mild, but when he contracts the RSV virus, its ER and
admitting for 3 days. O2 level is around 90 and he is on oxygen,
ventalin every 2 hours and given Pediapred to get his breathing back to

Los Angeles Times (CA)
December 8, 2004
Drugs May Offer Shield From Pollution's Harm
Researchers find that two types of medications taken for high blood pressure

first med wise I take: advair (highest dose), singulair, atrovent, flonase,
clartin & patanol...have home nebulizer...usally these meds work well & keep it
under control
winter is always worse for my asthma, past 3 days it's gotten bad I'm using my

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I have a Devilbiss Pulmo-aid nebulizer.  Model 4650D which is one level
below their top-of-the line (to my knowledge)
It is eight months old, and to my knowledge (wife and i both use it, she
much more than me) it has approx. 100 hours on it.

you asked:
How long have you had this? Or did you post it and I missed that! I am
going
to suggest you start a new thread. This one is hard to navigate.

Hey folks,
I'm not an asthmatic, but my sister is, and I figure you guys are probably a
leading authority on clean air.
I have recently purchased a Sharp FP-N60CX  purifier (which may

I'm tickled pink with Spiriva. I was suspicious of it because
Boehringer Ingelheim had promoted it for years before it finally became
available: in this country only half a year ago or so. Expensive.
The pitch is this: tiotropium works on only the first and third of the

Sometimes I get these types of asthma attacks that go away and become coughing
attacks. No amount of asthma puffers (Salbutamol) stops those certain kinds of
coughs. So what I do is I take a very warm bath and that usually helps stop  
the coughing. Another is chocolate.  

It seemes lying down on my left side causes more asthma then lying
on my right. Don't know why. So I try avoiding lying down on my left.
Has anyone experienced this?
I also never have anything to eat or drink for at least two hours

I have been off of mine for about a month now. I was doing
wonderfully. 100% better and tapering off of steriod inhaler.  The
last day or so I have felt short of breath again.  I took my rescue
inhaler and it doesn't help much, but it never did.  Does this mean

rare but fatal side effect, death
I take advair  500/50, which has seravent/salmeterol
this is in the US a warning for it, FDA hasn't recalled it yet
Dr know I take it

Whenever I catch a throat infection, it worse and eventually spreads
to the lungs and aggravates my asthma. Next thing I know I'm in a
hospital running out of air to breath.
How can I keep throat infections from spreading to the lungs? It seems to

I am using Pulmicort for my brochitis, two times a day (200 dose). My
doctor says that an overdose is not possible, however I am just
getting the idea that more use does not end up in reducing the
problem. In fact, I think just the opposite, there is an increase of