While there’s no single food or nutrient that relieves asthma symptoms, eating a balanced diet and avoiding processed and other triggering foods may help reduce asthma flare-ups. If you live ...

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and, in the latter part of the 20th century, reached epidemic proportions. Asthma is generally believed to result from gene-environment ...

Asthma is a condition in which the airways in your lungs narrow and swell. When asthma is triggered, the muscles around these airways tighten. There’s currently no cure for asthma, but treatment ...

While designed to address the nighttime interrupted breathing characteristic of OSA, CPAP has the added potential of helping improve your asthma symptoms if you have both conditions. If you have ...

Victoria's chief health officer says there is a high risk of epidemic thunderstorm asthma in parts of regional Victoria. Thunderstorm asthma is when high amounts of grass pollen and a certain type ...

Knowing your normal peak flow rate—and detecting when you are not achieving it—can be an important part of your asthma treatment and asthma action plan. Peak flow monitoring can also be useful to ...

Asthma is a form of bronchial disorder caused by inflammation of the bronchi. It is characterized by spasmodic contraction of airway smooth muscle, difficulty breathing, wheezing and coughing.

According to VicEmergency, there is a moderate risk of epidemic thunderstorm asthma forecast for Wednesday. Victorian residents have been warned of moderate thunderstorm asthma levels as pollen ...

The measurement is also called the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) or the peak expiratory flow (PEF). Peak flow measurement is mostly done by people who have asthma or a long-term (chronic) lung ...

After a challenging Saturday night for many hay fever and asthma sufferers across Victoria, high or extreme grass pollen levels are forecast again this afternoon. Grass pollen levels peaked at ...