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Natural Cures for Asthma
Asthma is a very common condition in which the airway in the lungs tightens up, making breathing out very difficult. This causes a distressing wheeze and rapid breathing and needs prompt mainstream medical attention in order to prevent an inadequate supply of oxygen to the body causing it permanent damage. It needs a proper diagnosis to be made before any treatment is contemplated and you should consult your doctor if you suspect you have asthma.
Asthma Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Asthma is largely controlled with inhaled drugs of two main types, steroids such as Becotide and drugs to relax the breathing tubes such as Ventolin. There are other types of treatments. They all need careful medical supervision and regular review.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Natural Cures from Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Asthma
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category.
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Asthma
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Ms. | Pamela | Bellamy | Georgia | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Deb | Brown | Iowa | United States of America | |
Natural Cures for Asthma Blog
Add your contributions to the "Natural Cures for Asthma" blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Asthma Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Asthma Foundations of Australia | Australia | National |
| The Asthma Foundation Victoria | Australia | Victoria |
| Allergy/Asthma Information Association | Canada | National |
| Asthma Society of Canada | Canada | National |
| Action Against Allergy | Great Britain | National |
| Allergy UK | Great Britain | National |
| Asthma UK | Great Britain | National |
| National Asthma Campaign | Great Britain | National |
| Asthma Care Ireland | Ireland | National |
| Asthma Society of Ireland | Ireland | National |
| Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Breathe Easy | New Zealand | National |
| Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America | United States of America | National |
| Asthma and Allergy Network Mothers of Asthmatics | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | Great cookbook by Glenis Lucas. Introduction by me! |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | |
