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Beth Creech describes the first time she used an EpiPen to treat her daughter's severe allergic reaction (National Jewish video):
When to Use an EpiPen
National Jewish Health pediatric allergist Kirsten Carel, MD, explains when to use an EpiPen to administer epinephrine for a severe allergic reaction.
Learn How to Use an EpiPen -- It Could Save a Life
National Jewish Health registered nurse Emily Cole explains how to use an EpiPen, a potentially lifesaving medication for children and adults suffering a severe allergic reaction.
25 Şubat 2013 Pazartesi
68% of caregivers incorrectly treat children's asthma exacerbation with albuterol, most undertreat
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Increased asthma morbidity and mortality is associated with inappropriate home self-management skills. This study included caregivers of 84 children with asthma aged 4 to 14 years, presenting to the emergency department (ED) with an asthma exacerbation. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines were used to classify home albuterol use as appropriate or inappropriate.
Home albuterol use for the current asthma exacerbation was categorized as:
- inappropriate in 68% of participants
- appropriate in 32%
Incorrect home albuterol use included:
- undertreating, including not giving albuterol frequently enough, and without albuterol at home.
- no spacer
- overtreating
- overreacting
- using a controller medicine for quick relief
Those with appropriate albuterol use were more likely to have their child hospitalized for asthma in the past 48 months.
A significant proportion of caregivers (68%) incorrectly treat children's asthma exacerbation with albuterol. Correctly assessing asthma symptom severity and appropriate home albuterol use may be linked to disease experience such as previous hospitalizations.
Incorrect and/or inappropriate use of medications is one of the major causes of difficult to control asthma:
Severe asthma - differential diagnosis and management (click to enlarge the image).
An asthma action plan may help. All patients with asthma should have such action plan.
The asthma action plan shows your daily treatment, such as what kind of medications to take and when to take them. Your plan describes how to control asthma long term AND how to handle worsening asthma, or asthma attacks. The plan explains when to call the doctor or go to the emergency room:
Asthma Action Plans
- Asthma Action Plan, adapted by Dr. Dimov (PDF)
- Asthma Action Plan, with added common medications, not branded for a specific physician (PDF)
- NIH generic Asthma Action Plan (PDF)
References:
Inappropriate home albuterol use during an acute asthma exacerbation. Clayton K, Monroe K, Magruder T, King W, Harrington K. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2012 Dec;109(6):416-9. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2012.09.013. Epub 2012 Oct 11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23176880
AllergyGoAway.com: How to use an asthma action plan and peak flow meter (videos)
Image source: ProAir-HFA Albuterol Sulfate (US), Wikipedia, public domain.
Increased asthma morbidity and mortality is associated with inappropriate home self-management skills. This study included caregivers of 84 children with asthma aged 4 to 14 years, presenting to the emergency department (ED) with an asthma exacerbation. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines were used to classify home albuterol use as appropriate or inappropriate.Home albuterol use for the current asthma exacerbation was categorized as:
- inappropriate in 68% of participants
- appropriate in 32%
Incorrect home albuterol use included:
- undertreating, including not giving albuterol frequently enough, and without albuterol at home.
- no spacer
- overtreating
- overreacting
- using a controller medicine for quick relief
Those with appropriate albuterol use were more likely to have their child hospitalized for asthma in the past 48 months.
A significant proportion of caregivers (68%) incorrectly treat children's asthma exacerbation with albuterol. Correctly assessing asthma symptom severity and appropriate home albuterol use may be linked to disease experience such as previous hospitalizations.
Incorrect and/or inappropriate use of medications is one of the major causes of difficult to control asthma:
Severe asthma - differential diagnosis and management (click to enlarge the image).
An asthma action plan may help. All patients with asthma should have such action plan.
The asthma action plan shows your daily treatment, such as what kind of medications to take and when to take them. Your plan describes how to control asthma long term AND how to handle worsening asthma, or asthma attacks. The plan explains when to call the doctor or go to the emergency room:
Asthma Action Plans
- Asthma Action Plan, adapted by Dr. Dimov (PDF)
- Asthma Action Plan, with added common medications, not branded for a specific physician (PDF)
- NIH generic Asthma Action Plan (PDF)
References:
Inappropriate home albuterol use during an acute asthma exacerbation. Clayton K, Monroe K, Magruder T, King W, Harrington K. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2012 Dec;109(6):416-9. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2012.09.013. Epub 2012 Oct 11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23176880
AllergyGoAway.com: How to use an asthma action plan and peak flow meter (videos)
Image source: ProAir-HFA Albuterol Sulfate (US), Wikipedia, public domain.
Shingles Cures Tips - Let's reduce pain and Anxiety from it
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You will have to deal with painful rashes that keep on appearing from time to time whenever you are suffer from it because of Your doctor will be unable to give you a permanent cure of them and will only be able to give you medications that treat your symptoms.
Shingles Treatments are not always the best thing for you because they consist of powerful antiviral medications as well as antihistamines and corticosteroids also might find the side effects of these drugs as hard to bear as the symptoms of them.
Skin Balm is one of the most effective remedies for it which you can easily make out of ingredients easily available at home or at health food stores.
You need good quality olive oil to start with, to which you should add drops of lavender, tea tree oil, geranium and oregano.
Peppermint oil also has excellent pain killing properties. The combination of essential oils helps to kill viruses and bacteria on the skin while the olive oil soothes the itching on the skin and helps to trap in moisture.
It will help prevent you scratching your rashes. This is one of the biggest reasons for a secondary bacterial infection taking place, leading to scarring. This mixture of oils is extremely fragrant and will also help put you in a good mood.
Another simple way of reducing your itching, and therefore your irritation and anxiety, is to apply petroleum jelly to the areas that have rashes.
This is an inexpensive solution to the problem of itching. These tips will help reduce your dependence on medication by giving you lots of comfort and peace of mind.
You will have to deal with painful rashes that keep on appearing from time to time whenever you are suffer from it because of Your doctor will be unable to give you a permanent cure of them and will only be able to give you medications that treat your symptoms.
Shingles Treatments are not always the best thing for you because they consist of powerful antiviral medications as well as antihistamines and corticosteroids also might find the side effects of these drugs as hard to bear as the symptoms of them.
Skin Balm is one of the most effective remedies for it which you can easily make out of ingredients easily available at home or at health food stores.
You need good quality olive oil to start with, to which you should add drops of lavender, tea tree oil, geranium and oregano.
Peppermint oil also has excellent pain killing properties. The combination of essential oils helps to kill viruses and bacteria on the skin while the olive oil soothes the itching on the skin and helps to trap in moisture.
It will help prevent you scratching your rashes. This is one of the biggest reasons for a secondary bacterial infection taking place, leading to scarring. This mixture of oils is extremely fragrant and will also help put you in a good mood.
Another simple way of reducing your itching, and therefore your irritation and anxiety, is to apply petroleum jelly to the areas that have rashes.
This is an inexpensive solution to the problem of itching. These tips will help reduce your dependence on medication by giving you lots of comfort and peace of mind.
Day 1285 - It's All In Your Head
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It has taken me over three years to write this post.
When the headache started - which now seems all those years ago - I went to see a psychologist about it. The headache had exacerbated to such a degree that I was unable to work and felt completely depressed about my situation. After telling her about the distress that the headache had caused, she looked at me, arms gently folded over her lap, and stated “It must be such a headache having this pain!” and gave a little chuckle. I brushed aside this silly joke, ignoring it and thinking that maybe she had unintentionally let it out. However, when the very same joke repeated itself over the course of the next sessions, I felt hurt, frustrated and angry that a person contending to be there to help could actually end up aggravating a situation. I could bear it no longer and after a few sessions I left. That was the last of any psychological treatment I have undergone.
The possibility of the headache being related to a close friend’s death which took place a few months before the onset of my headache, has crossed my mind more than once. But nearly four years down the line I do not think the headache is related to this, or at least entirely to this. It is possible that I have not yet recovered from the shock of losing such a close friend. I truly believe there is a strong link between body and mind and that a traumatic event can undoubtedly have consequences on one’s body. The passage above taken from a Headache Centre webpage discusses this in further detail. Just today I also came across an article on the BBC website on a similar topic.
The reason it has taken me so long to write anything on this is that I am unable to draw the line between the “it could be a psychologically caused headache ” to a “it’s all in your head” (i.e. fictional). I am certain, from the manner in which this question is usually addressed to me, that by ‘psychological’ the word ‘fictional’ is intended. Does anyone feel the same?
"Many people know about other contributing factors such as heredity, food triggers, lack of sleep, poor posture, etc., but are not aware of any psychological connection.
Headache specialists report that many of their patients resist any discussion of emotional or psychological contributors to their recurrent headaches. Some people fear that pursuing this avenue could uncover evidence of "mental illness." Others feel that the existence of these factors would make their pain less real because it would then be "all in their heads". In just about all cases, neither of these 2 things is true!
Headache is definitely a biological disorder. However, since the body and the mind are interconnected, your emotional and psychological states can have an effect on your overall health, including your headaches. Here's why:
- When your emotional and psychological systems are in good working order, they help to create a positive environment that contributes to the health of your body.
- When these systems aren't working so well...for example, if you feel anxious, depressed or angry on a frequent basis — and especially if you find it difficult to shake these feelings — a negative environment can be created in your body that may contribute to a specific headache episode or create a fertile breeding ground for headaches to occur.
The relationship between anxiety, depression and headache is not fully understood. However, it is known that the brain chemical serotonin plays a role in all of them. Some headache specialists have theorized that these disorders may share a common mechanism in the brain.
Research has shown that some chronic headache sufferers also suffer from depression and/or anxiety. It is important to note that these sufferers' psychological conditions may not be caused by their headaches. Rather, tendencies towards depression or anxiety may be inherent in their personalities or ways of thinking. Or, they may be the result of an intense and prolonged level of stress which may lead to psychological conditions such as anxiety or depression. Regardless of the cause, having frequent headaches and feeling a lack of control over them may cause an existing condition of depression or anxiety to worsen. This situation can easily snowball, creating a vicious cycle of headache and emotional distress.
Unfortunately, emotional and psychological factors are often not considered in the treatment of headache. Doctors (especially those who are not headache specialists) tend to emphasize medical treatment — and rightly so. This is the traditional "first line of defense" and is effective for most headache patients. So is appropriate to start — and, for most, to stop — there. Also, some doctors today are cautious not to focus on psychological factors during the earlier stages of headache treatment — possibly overcompensating for the days when many doctors treated patients as if the pain was "all in their heads."
Doctors who do bring up psychological contributors as a possibility often find that their patients want to avoid psychological treatment, fearing a "mentally ill" diagnosis or having a concern that the presence of these factors would mean that their headaches are not a serious medical problem. This is very unfortunate because nothing could be farther from the truth!"*
*http://www.excedrin.com/psychological-contributors-to-headaches.shtml
It has taken me over three years to write this post.
When the headache started - which now seems all those years ago - I went to see a psychologist about it. The headache had exacerbated to such a degree that I was unable to work and felt completely depressed about my situation. After telling her about the distress that the headache had caused, she looked at me, arms gently folded over her lap, and stated “It must be such a headache having this pain!” and gave a little chuckle. I brushed aside this silly joke, ignoring it and thinking that maybe she had unintentionally let it out. However, when the very same joke repeated itself over the course of the next sessions, I felt hurt, frustrated and angry that a person contending to be there to help could actually end up aggravating a situation. I could bear it no longer and after a few sessions I left. That was the last of any psychological treatment I have undergone.
The possibility of the headache being related to a close friend’s death which took place a few months before the onset of my headache, has crossed my mind more than once. But nearly four years down the line I do not think the headache is related to this, or at least entirely to this. It is possible that I have not yet recovered from the shock of losing such a close friend. I truly believe there is a strong link between body and mind and that a traumatic event can undoubtedly have consequences on one’s body. The passage above taken from a Headache Centre webpage discusses this in further detail. Just today I also came across an article on the BBC website on a similar topic.
The reason it has taken me so long to write anything on this is that I am unable to draw the line between the “it could be a psychologically caused headache ” to a “it’s all in your head” (i.e. fictional). I am certain, from the manner in which this question is usually addressed to me, that by ‘psychological’ the word ‘fictional’ is intended. Does anyone feel the same?
24 Şubat 2013 Pazar
Epinephrine use with a food allergy attack: A Parent's Experience (video)
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Beth Creech describes the first time she used an EpiPen to treat her daughter's severe allergic reaction (National Jewish video):
When to Use an EpiPen
National Jewish Health pediatric allergist Kirsten Carel, MD, explains when to use an EpiPen to administer epinephrine for a severe allergic reaction.
Learn How to Use an EpiPen -- It Could Save a Life
National Jewish Health registered nurse Emily Cole explains how to use an EpiPen, a potentially lifesaving medication for children and adults suffering a severe allergic reaction.
When to Use an EpiPen
National Jewish Health pediatric allergist Kirsten Carel, MD, explains when to use an EpiPen to administer epinephrine for a severe allergic reaction.
Learn How to Use an EpiPen -- It Could Save a Life
National Jewish Health registered nurse Emily Cole explains how to use an EpiPen, a potentially lifesaving medication for children and adults suffering a severe allergic reaction.
68% of caregivers incorrectly treat children's asthma exacerbation with albuterol, most undertreat
To contact us Click HERE
Increased asthma morbidity and mortality is associated with inappropriate home self-management skills. This study included caregivers of 84 children with asthma aged 4 to 14 years, presenting to the emergency department (ED) with an asthma exacerbation. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines were used to classify home albuterol use as appropriate or inappropriate.
Home albuterol use for the current asthma exacerbation was categorized as:
- inappropriate in 68% of participants
- appropriate in 32%
Incorrect home albuterol use included:
- undertreating, including not giving albuterol frequently enough, and without albuterol at home.
- no spacer
- overtreating
- overreacting
- using a controller medicine for quick relief
Those with appropriate albuterol use were more likely to have their child hospitalized for asthma in the past 48 months.
A significant proportion of caregivers (68%) incorrectly treat children's asthma exacerbation with albuterol. Correctly assessing asthma symptom severity and appropriate home albuterol use may be linked to disease experience such as previous hospitalizations.
Incorrect and/or inappropriate use of medications is one of the major causes of difficult to control asthma:
Severe asthma - differential diagnosis and management (click to enlarge the image).
An asthma action plan may help. All patients with asthma should have such action plan.
The asthma action plan shows your daily treatment, such as what kind of medications to take and when to take them. Your plan describes how to control asthma long term AND how to handle worsening asthma, or asthma attacks. The plan explains when to call the doctor or go to the emergency room:
Asthma Action Plans
- Asthma Action Plan, adapted by Dr. Dimov (PDF)
- Asthma Action Plan, with added common medications, not branded for a specific physician (PDF)
- NIH generic Asthma Action Plan (PDF)
References:
Inappropriate home albuterol use during an acute asthma exacerbation. Clayton K, Monroe K, Magruder T, King W, Harrington K. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2012 Dec;109(6):416-9. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2012.09.013. Epub 2012 Oct 11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23176880
AllergyGoAway.com: How to use an asthma action plan and peak flow meter (videos)
Image source: ProAir-HFA Albuterol Sulfate (US), Wikipedia, public domain.
Increased asthma morbidity and mortality is associated with inappropriate home self-management skills. This study included caregivers of 84 children with asthma aged 4 to 14 years, presenting to the emergency department (ED) with an asthma exacerbation. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines were used to classify home albuterol use as appropriate or inappropriate.Home albuterol use for the current asthma exacerbation was categorized as:
- inappropriate in 68% of participants
- appropriate in 32%
Incorrect home albuterol use included:
- undertreating, including not giving albuterol frequently enough, and without albuterol at home.
- no spacer
- overtreating
- overreacting
- using a controller medicine for quick relief
Those with appropriate albuterol use were more likely to have their child hospitalized for asthma in the past 48 months.
A significant proportion of caregivers (68%) incorrectly treat children's asthma exacerbation with albuterol. Correctly assessing asthma symptom severity and appropriate home albuterol use may be linked to disease experience such as previous hospitalizations.
Incorrect and/or inappropriate use of medications is one of the major causes of difficult to control asthma:
Severe asthma - differential diagnosis and management (click to enlarge the image).
An asthma action plan may help. All patients with asthma should have such action plan.
The asthma action plan shows your daily treatment, such as what kind of medications to take and when to take them. Your plan describes how to control asthma long term AND how to handle worsening asthma, or asthma attacks. The plan explains when to call the doctor or go to the emergency room:
Asthma Action Plans
- Asthma Action Plan, adapted by Dr. Dimov (PDF)
- Asthma Action Plan, with added common medications, not branded for a specific physician (PDF)
- NIH generic Asthma Action Plan (PDF)
References:
Inappropriate home albuterol use during an acute asthma exacerbation. Clayton K, Monroe K, Magruder T, King W, Harrington K. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2012 Dec;109(6):416-9. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2012.09.013. Epub 2012 Oct 11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23176880
AllergyGoAway.com: How to use an asthma action plan and peak flow meter (videos)
Image source: ProAir-HFA Albuterol Sulfate (US), Wikipedia, public domain.
Shingles Cures Tips - Let's reduce pain and Anxiety from it
To contact us Click HERE
You will have to deal with painful rashes that keep on appearing from time to time whenever you are suffer from it because of Your doctor will be unable to give you a permanent cure of them and will only be able to give you medications that treat your symptoms.
Shingles Treatments are not always the best thing for you because they consist of powerful antiviral medications as well as antihistamines and corticosteroids also might find the side effects of these drugs as hard to bear as the symptoms of them.
Skin Balm is one of the most effective remedies for it which you can easily make out of ingredients easily available at home or at health food stores.
You need good quality olive oil to start with, to which you should add drops of lavender, tea tree oil, geranium and oregano.
Peppermint oil also has excellent pain killing properties. The combination of essential oils helps to kill viruses and bacteria on the skin while the olive oil soothes the itching on the skin and helps to trap in moisture.
It will help prevent you scratching your rashes. This is one of the biggest reasons for a secondary bacterial infection taking place, leading to scarring. This mixture of oils is extremely fragrant and will also help put you in a good mood.
Another simple way of reducing your itching, and therefore your irritation and anxiety, is to apply petroleum jelly to the areas that have rashes.
This is an inexpensive solution to the problem of itching. These tips will help reduce your dependence on medication by giving you lots of comfort and peace of mind.
You will have to deal with painful rashes that keep on appearing from time to time whenever you are suffer from it because of Your doctor will be unable to give you a permanent cure of them and will only be able to give you medications that treat your symptoms.
Shingles Treatments are not always the best thing for you because they consist of powerful antiviral medications as well as antihistamines and corticosteroids also might find the side effects of these drugs as hard to bear as the symptoms of them.
Skin Balm is one of the most effective remedies for it which you can easily make out of ingredients easily available at home or at health food stores.
You need good quality olive oil to start with, to which you should add drops of lavender, tea tree oil, geranium and oregano.
Peppermint oil also has excellent pain killing properties. The combination of essential oils helps to kill viruses and bacteria on the skin while the olive oil soothes the itching on the skin and helps to trap in moisture.
It will help prevent you scratching your rashes. This is one of the biggest reasons for a secondary bacterial infection taking place, leading to scarring. This mixture of oils is extremely fragrant and will also help put you in a good mood.
Another simple way of reducing your itching, and therefore your irritation and anxiety, is to apply petroleum jelly to the areas that have rashes.
This is an inexpensive solution to the problem of itching. These tips will help reduce your dependence on medication by giving you lots of comfort and peace of mind.
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