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When you visit your doctor, they will likely administer a quick test to gauge how well controlled your asthma is. You may have this presented to you as a form...

I used to walk into work at a school-aged daycare in the morning--the kids would run at me, "Miss Kerri!" They'd exclaim before I could even get my jacket or...

Having a disease like asthma means recognizing asthma triggers, or potential asthma triggers, in your home and learning how to control them. This is something my wife and I have...

It's that time of year again, time for Back to School Night to meet my daughter's teachers. Most of the teachers there already know us since this is our last...

I am not particularly graceful, but I'm not also particularly clumsy. (Okay maybe I am, but rarely to the point that I trip and actually fall often, or that I've...

In my previous post, I wrote about the conversations I have had with my friend Jay relating to positivity and choice when living with chronic disease, consider checking that out...

A problem with infants and small children is they can’t speak for themselves. They feel asthma symptoms, but they can’t tell you how they feel. This is where it comes...

While there are certain songs that I find have resonance to my life with asthma, when I was writing earlier about living positively with asthma and tackling some of the...

In 1918, asthma was considered a symptom of allergies, and the treatment was allergy shots. Dr. Francis Rackemann, however, observed most of his asthma patients did not have allergies, and...

My asthma is annoying. I feel lucky that I can write my asthma down in the same column as standing in line at the DMV or having to wait for...

Maybe the itches and wheezes are new or maybe you join me in getting a new label for old symptoms. Hopefully your diagnosis comes from a wonderful allergist who will...

Let's face it: Cleaning house isn't fun. At least not for the majority of people. It would be so nice to be able to wave a magic wand or snap...

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You may not think of asthma and headaches as being related, but apparently, they are. Actually, as with any modern study, many of us older asthmatics observed the link long...

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been dealing with lots of triggers. I am generally excellent at minimizing exposure to triggers but, sometimes you just have to make the...

If you're like me, weather can be a pretty gnarly trigger for my asthma. I joke with my friends and family that my lungs are a barometer and can tell...

I was recently asked to describe my asthma in one word, and the first word to come into my mind was, “beneficial.” I know this shocks most, if not all...

When I worked in a school-aged daycare centre, I regularly cared for kids with asthma. Though their asthma was rarely on the front of their minds, fortunately, I saw these...

A couple of weeks ago, I had an encounter an interesting situation in the in the Diagnostic Imagining waiting room. There was an older couple waiting for their name to...

The goal of any asthma treatment program is to prevent and control asthma. Still, there may be times when your asthma gets the best of you. Here is what actually...