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06 February 2008, 01:26
American Chronicle Asthma Round Up: Is Prevention Yet The Cure?
Veterans in the medical terrene have now linked the trigger part of asthma to the emotion processing centres in the brain, linking it to the physiological processes that could cause asthmatic symptoms. To add to the doctor´s dilemma, modern lifestyle has but aggravated the cause and symptom of asthma.
The battle to cull this chaos goes on along with and beyond complimentary, companion or adjunct asthma therapies.
The need is to control contemporary lifestyle pressures such as long working hours, incongruous eating habits and working in shifts that has but precipitated attacks amongst asthma sufferers.
How you pick out to living your life also adds to whether the ailment is chronic or acute. Have you ever questioned the "vanilla" or "strawberry" essence or the food additives and preservatives in processed modern food. Like it or not, these additives are known to combine to the ´asthma woes´.
Poorly ventilated home or office space, passive smoke and obesity extremely alongwith stress, overuse of antibiotics in early childhood, cold weather conditions and bad inter personal relationships are now stated as symptomatic of indicative of genesis for asthmatic patients with hyperallergic air passages.
An Eco Friendly Attempt India has an estimated 15-20 million asthmatic patients and about 10-15 percent, sufferers belong to the 5-11 year age group. The classified triggers championing asthma include environment pollutants, molds, dust mites, decided bread belongings - the ailment affects all sections of the society.
Almost 15 percent of children in Delhi suffer from asthma and 10 percent of the total population is affected due to smoking and environmental pollution. Drug majors are now changing inhaler therapy in favour of the non CFC inhalers using HFA (Hydro Fluoro Alkanes) technology.
But We Necessitate More In India, flaxseed popularly known as Linseed (Linum usitatissimum), an important oilseed crop grown representing its oil and fiber is consumed in North Karnataka as chutney powder, karandi etc.
The conceivable health profit include lowering of bad cholesterol common which results in lowering cardiovascular risk, diabetes, and asthma, amongst other ailments.
Weed It Or Heed It In recent times, the asthma menace has also triggered socio-economic activity in its protocol to protect the Kaziranga National Park and the neighbouring hilly areas of Assam in the North Eastern India from the lethal grab of the Parthenium weed.
This weed poses a threat not individual to the flora and fauna as it destroys the comestible chain; people living in the area if exposed to the plant or its pollen can suffer from from dermatitis, hay fever and asthma.
The Association for Socio-economic Assessment and Development, Northeast, an NGO dealing with environment related outgoing has recently committed itself to educating the limited inhabitants on the ills of the Parthenium weed.
The tranquil incidences of asthma, eczema, dermatitis and forage fever is further understood to be caused by the toxins released through pollen stone from dangerous crop weeds.
In Delhi, North India, 30 percent of asthma carton are caused due to pollens generated next to such crop weeds, especially Parthenium.
Agro-scientists be credulous that at least 50 percent of wasteland in the Sovereign state is covered alongside Parthenium alone while the crop solid ground is covered by a bare 0.5 percent.
Scientists at the Weed Control Project of Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) fear that this enumerate is strong enough to multiply given the life-cycles and growth rate of such pollens, further proliferating "asthma attacks" amongst suffers in the state capital.