Articles labeled: asthma

A boy who lost his sight and also the ability to walk and talk after an asthma attack cut off oxygen to his brain is slowly recovering.

Dante [Hall] was stricken last June and remained unconscious for a month. When he regained consciousness, he suffered from memory loss, blindness, and couldn’t walk or talk.

He went home in August and, with help from physical therapists, learned to walk again.

“He couldn’t talk when he came home from the hospital,” his mother said, but now “he won’t stop.”

Jenika Hall said doctors at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, where Dante was treated, visited in December and were amazed at his progress.

The study has scientists suggesting that in wealthier nations, we live in cleaner, more sterile environments, causing our immune systems to freak out when exposed to anything foreign.

I was always sick as a kid and I was always filthy and my mother only cleaned the house once in a blue moon, so I’m not sure I’m buyin’ it….

MONDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) — Where you live may affect the type of asthma you develop, new research suggests.

The international study found that youngsters in affluent, developed countries had more allergy-triggered asthma symptoms than did children in poorer, less developed countries.

Interesting.

The Lactivist community must be reeling from this news. I wonder how they’re gonna spin it.

TORONTO (CP) — The first ever randomized trial to look at the much debated question of whether breastfeeding protects an infant from developing asthma and allergies found that children who were breastfed as babies were not at a lower risk of developing these conditions.

In fact, children whose mothers were in the group urged to continue to breastfeed their children exclusively were more likely to test positive later for five common allergies - dust mites, cat dander, birch and grass pollens and fungi.