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If you have asthma, your immune system reacts to certain triggers. It causes your airways to narrow and increases inflammation. These reactions then lead to the symptoms of asthma. The...

I love spring. I look forward to it all winter long. Yet spring does not love me back. I live on the northwest shore of Lake Michigan. It rarely gets...

I was having a conversation recently with another asthmatic about the number of patients we know who have changed or are switching biologics. While every patient is different, it seemed...

Being diagnosed with asthma as a child is bad luck - full stop. So, this article is not going to be ranting, "I've had it worse than you." That is...

We all know that no 2 people experience asthma the exact same way. We each have our own age of diagnosis, symptoms, family history, severity, and more. In our 2020...

Six years ago my severe asthma was completely out of control. The 5 daily asthma medications and frequent ER visits and hospitalizations were taking their toll on my body. My...

“While writing about my health issues has not cured them, it has helped me develop better coping skills and even contributed to better management of my symptoms (and I could...

I was listening to a webinar, and I heard the doctor say something about an “allergic load.” What is he talking about? Most of us with asthma also have allergies...

Asthma is one of those conditions that many people think they understand. They may think of a kid on the playground using their inhaler in the middle of a game...

EDAC is the acronym for excessive dynamic airway collapse. It means the "soft tissue of the posterior wall of the trachea bulges forward and touches the anterior wall during tidal...

In respiratory therapy (RT) school, I learned that asthma is caused by an overactive immune response. It begins with your immune system identifying something as harmful. Then it releases mediators of...

We conducted an interview with Instagram community member, Michael Knightmage Wilson. He works in Law Enforcement and has been a Deputy Sheriff for almost 21 years while living with asthma...

I would say the thing that most has the worst effect on my asthma is grass and tree pollens. If I look back at all my hospital admissions as a...

I recently wrote about my anxiety related to buying our 120-year-old home, and the prospect of ripping up the 20-year-old, high-pile carpet throughout the entire upstairs. I’m back to say...

I was watching the news and saw videos of people getting the COVID vaccine. There was a man and a woman in different clinics, both getting their vaccine, both were...

Digital therapeutics (DTx) first entered clinical discussions in the 1990s. The idea was that technology could improve healthcare access. It could help overcome barriers of location, time, and resources. This...

Since Health Union (the parent company of Asthma.net) launched this online community, these have been our goals: It has been 5 years since we officially launched Asthma.net! Each of us...

Have you experienced back pain due to your asthma, perhaps from frequent coughing and chest tightness? What do you do to manage your back pain? There was that soreness that...

Certain things besides your prescribed asthma medication can help you find relief from asthma symptoms, including coffee, tea, cold air, fresh air, humidifiers, and even alcohol. Sometimes there is science...

May is Asthma Awareness Month. It’s that time of year we take extra steps to help get the word out about our disease. Here are six simple things you and...