Asthma Quotations

I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another problem such as an ear, chest or sinus infection and sometimes even joint pains.

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled.

If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

We still struggle with it. I still feel like I'm new (at asthma management), ... You never know what's around the corner. I still haven't gotten the hang of it.

Asthma is treatable and well can be controlled.

When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.

There are a lot of asthma pills out there, but this may be the best one yet. It has a benign side-effect profile and high efficiency.

So many kids have asthma and think they can't do it.

She has built up a lot of muscle, and she has asthma so it's good for her breathing-wise, ... She's also developing friendships with older role models.

Most patients don't follow daily treatment regimens no matter how good their doctor is. That disconnect is huge, and it's a large factor in how well we control asthma in kids and adults.

People with asthma or allergies will be at particular risk of breathing in substances that are a threat to their health.

One of the key factors contributing to this country's rising asthma epidemic is that patients are not equipped to recognize and manage their triggers and symptoms. As a result, patients don't effectively communicate with their doctors and end up comprising basic daily activities.

I was taken completely by surprise. My wife died within a few minutes from an asthma attack. I was utterly destroyed. I was mad, crazy, I was howling.

Basically she was exhausted and had these nagging coughing problems. She belongs to this group of competitive athletes with asthma and in the oval over the last few weeks it just got a bit worse.

I have asthma and can't inhale that stuff that they have in the air down there.

He's been clear of asthma for four years now. His pulmonary function tests are clear.

He's been clear of asthma for four years now, ... His pulmonary function tests are clear.

Kids with asthma should be able to do anything other kids can do, without fear of triggering exercise-induced asthma. In fact, asthma is more common among Olympic athletes than in the general population.

Just the guilt of the unborn babies is enough. Also, I have asthma and if I get sick, it becomes double pneumonia. The doctor warned me it's getting serious either sell the cafe or die early. It's so serious (cigarette smoke) that my help wasn't going to work here anymore.

I was willing to have about three asthma attacks. I told them at the beginning of the game, if you don't want to step up, I'll stay out there the whole time. I'll do whatever it takes to win. I will stay out there until I faint.

Parents and teachers play a critical role in caring for children with asthma. Our goal is to provide resources to ensure that everybody in a child's life has the information they need to manage their asthma on a daily basis.

Our young people who have asthma will not be exposed to the same sorts of toxic substances in our schools,

My son has asthma and I do as well.

My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to avoid the dust. However, he always arrived at his destination and did his share of the work.

It did make the plant grow some more so yeah, I think it's going to make for a bad ragweed season this year, ... I think there's going to be fairly high counts, maybe in the thousands range and we'll start seeing people come in with hay fever, asthma and allergic conjunctivitis pretty soon.

You have to decide whether or not they're going to be able to do it, to keep up with the treatment. I had a patient who had three asthma medications. She had a $5 co-pay, but for her, $15 was cost-prohibitive, and she wasn't filling any of her medications.

We hope these results will convince more physicians and parents as well, that treating children with mild to moderate asthma with inhaled corticosteroids will result in better asthma control and improved quality of life.

I have exercise-induced asthma.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

We believe that this research will lead us to develop a new ways of preventing and treating asthma and anaphylaxis, which can then be extended to treat inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis,

There have been similar findings with regard to diabetes care. When Pitney Bowes lowered costs for diabetes and asthma medications, they found that overall costs went down and compliance went up.

We want to understand what is wrong in patients with severe asthma and apply what we learn to help them.

The governor apparently can't see the forest for the trees, perhaps because of the smog. Children, especially, are hurt by this thoughtless veto, as asthma rates continue to rise across our state.

We didn't know what it was at first, ... We thought it was asthma because after I ran for extensive periods of time I would pass out, but before that I would go into shock because I didn't know what was happening and I would start breathing heavily and hyperventilating.

Asthma patients are the real winners of the third round.

Asthma is very hard to diagnose in young children,

Asthma is increasing significantly across the world, ... Unfortunately, we don't know why.

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that causes inflammation in the airways. As these tissues swell, they limit the volume of air that can pass into the lungs.

The residents knew what happened last time the moths came. Hundreds of people suffered skin irritations and asthma and when the moths came this time they started buying lotions and staying indoors.

There's going to be a big asthma walk, and he's going to start it.

These animals did not develop difficulty in breathing. The presence of the worms blocks pulmonary inflammation, ... We believe that this research will lead us to develop new ways of preventing and treating asthma and anaphylaxis, which can then be extended to treat inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis.

These changes in brain activity might be part of a pathway by which emotions affect asthma symptoms.

Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.

One day I pulled over a women speeding down the highway who was having a severe asthma attack. She had her two-year-old in the back seat. She would not have made it to the hospital on her own. We called the quick response unit and got her to the emergency room.

Anti-inflammatory medication such as an inhaled steroid should keep kids with asthma from having attacks triggered by exercise. If asthma is under good control, exercise-related attacks should rarely occur.

As a result, we have recommended to all elite athletes and teams that it is best to screen athletes for exercise-induced asthma rather than rely on athletes reporting symptoms to their doctor.

This is a states' rights and children's rights health issue. Clean air and a vibrant economy go hand in hand. It means Colorado has the right to do what is best for our own citizens and the tourism industry that is so dependent on a clean environment. This bill protects us from the very real costs of air pollution - lost tourism, children with asthma and children with learning disabilities caused by mercury poisoning.

There were a couple of broken bones, one cardiac arrest and some people with asthma complained about all the dust.

At first, we went to every game because he has asthma and we were afraid that somebody wouldn't have an inhaler. We stopped carrying the inhalers when he went to college because the training staff took care of that, but we've kept following him from coast to coast every step of the way.

About 30 (percent) to 40 percent (of asthmatics) are allergic to mold, ... I anticipate a great need for emergency care. I don't want to sound alarmist, but 4,000 people die of asthma attacks every year in the U.S., and I worry there will be a lot of asthma attacks.

I've had two athletes in the past two years who didn't even know they had asthma until they started running for me.

I just randomly got the idea, that fencing would be fun and no one else does it. I have asthma so I couldn't do a lot of other sports, like soccer and basketball, fencing a perfect fit for me.

I ran a good second mile, ... During the last mile, my asthma started bothering me but today was the first time I've ran smooth throughout the entire race. Before I would bounce through part of it. If I had been pushed, I could have knocked 20 seconds off it.

In a classroom of 20 kids, there's one with asthma in any school,

His legs are very strong. You couldn't see it tonight. He's got asthma and it was bothering him some. He was so upset and down with his performance. He's one of the best on our team about taking a charge.

I've had asthma my entire life.

He also has a bad asthma problem. With the thumb and the asthma, we had some worries, but he's come back healthy and nothing seems to bother him.

I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

The heart attacks, the strokes, they will come no matter what's going on, ... The patient with pneumonia, the patient with an asthma attack will say, 'Maybe I can ride this out at home.'

Although asthma experts around the world have recognized the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids in treating asthma, their long-term effects in children were not clear.

The long-term goal is to develop new ways to evaluate a patient's asthma to allow us to design individualized therapy for that patient based on the type of inflammation in their lungs or the genes they have. We are a long way from being there, but this research is a start.

And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.