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LIVING WITH ASTHMA

Sunday, January 2, 2011 | 9:06 am
In the past, people were content to leave asthma management to their doctors. But today’s doctors are actively encouraging asthma patients to share more of the responsibility in the management of their illness. Learning to recognize the warning signs of an impending attack is the first step in learning to deal with asthma.
Asthma attacks can develop over a few days, a few hours and even a few minutes. Sudden asthma attacks mean just that — they start very suddenly and unexpectedly, particularly in asthmatics who are not on a regular medication regime.
It is not only chronic and severe asthmatics who suffer acute or life threatening attacks. Even mild and occasional asthmatics are at risk. All asthmatics should have guidelines by which to recognize a serious deterioration in their lung capacity, as well as an action plan for use in the event of an acute attack.
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LIVING WITH ASTHMAIn the past, people were content to leave asthma management to their doctors. But today’s doctors are actively encouraging asthma patients to share more of the responsibility in the management of their illness. Learning to recognize the warning signs of an impending attack is the first step in learning to deal with asthma.Asthma attacks can develop over a few days, a few hours and even a few minutes. Sudden asthma attacks mean just that — they start very suddenly and unexpectedly, particularly in asthmatics who are not on a regular medication regime.It is not only chronic and severe asthmatics who suffer acute or life threatening attacks. Even mild and occasional asthmatics are at risk. All asthmatics should have guidelines by which to recognize a serious deterioration in their lung capacity, as well as an action plan for use in the event of an acute attack.*48\148\2*

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ARE YOU ASTHMATIC OR TOXIC?

Friday, December 10, 2010 | 8:36 am
Virtually any system can be affected [by xenobiotics]. Hypersensitivity to chemicals has been characterised as a backward disease. Instead of a systematic sequence of events resulting in a predictable set of signs and symptoms, it is a systematic sequence of events that results in an apparently random set of symptoms that can differ greatly from victim to victim with time. It is, therefore, not identifiable according to the rules of nosonomy.
Tabor 1986
There are five basic principles in environmental medicine, according to Dr Sherry Rogers, the world authority on the subject quoted earlier.
Total body load explains why reactions vary from day to day, are never the same and can vary from person to person.
Adaptation or masking can occur whereby the body gets ‘used to’ a toxin and adjusts itself for the time being. Meanwhile accumulation proceeds, the body is stressed and somewhere along the line an apparently sudden deterioration occurs.
Biochemical individuality and individual susceptibility mean that no two people will get exactly the same symptoms from the same exposure. Likewise, people with similar symptoms can have different causes.
Bipolarity: stimulation phase followed by a down. The stimulation can be misinterpreted as good and the individual may become addicted to the stimuli. He or she learns to repeat exposure or ingestion in order to avoid the ‘down’ phase, very much like an alcoholic.
The spreading phenomenon, where the pathways used to dispose of a toxin become more overloaded, damaged or depleted, so one becomes more and more sensitive to new factors and to lower doses of the same toxins. The ability to tolerate something decreases.
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ARE YOU ASTHMATIC OR TOXIC?Virtually any system can be affected [by xenobiotics]. Hypersensitivity to chemicals has been characterised as a backward disease. Instead of a systematic sequence of events resulting in a predictable set of signs and symptoms, it is a systematic sequence of events that results in an apparently random set of symptoms that can differ greatly from victim to victim with time. It is, therefore, not identifiable according to the rules of nosonomy.Tabor 1986There are five basic principles in environmental medicine, according to Dr Sherry Rogers, the world authority on the subject quoted earlier.Total body load explains why reactions vary from day to day, are never the same and can vary from person to person.Adaptation or masking can occur whereby the body gets ‘used to’ a toxin and adjusts itself for the time being. Meanwhile accumulation proceeds, the body is stressed and somewhere along the line an apparently sudden deterioration occurs.Biochemical individuality and individual susceptibility mean that no two people will get exactly the same symptoms from the same exposure. Likewise, people with similar symptoms can have different causes.Bipolarity: stimulation phase followed by a down. The stimulation can be misinterpreted as good and the individual may become addicted to the stimuli. He or she learns to repeat exposure or ingestion in order to avoid the ‘down’ phase, very much like an alcoholic. The spreading phenomenon, where the pathways used to dispose of a toxin become more overloaded, damaged or depleted, so one becomes more and more sensitive to new factors and to lower doses of the same toxins. The ability to tolerate something decreases.*23\145\2*

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