Asthma

Kids with asthma and pollen allergies were more likely to wheeze, cough and have shortness of breath and other asthma symptoms, even when pollen levels were considered "low" in a new study that suggests parents need to be careful in all seasons.Yale and Brown University researchers tracked more than 400 children with asthma, as well as the daily pollen levels near each child's home, over the course of five years. They found that despite daily maintenance medications, kids with pollen sensitivities were up to 37 percent more likely to have respiratory symptoms and to need rescue medication when pollen in the air was as low as six to nine grains per cubic meter, a level the National Allergy Bureau calls low."In some respects, it's common sense that if a child is asthmatic and allergic to pollen, when they're exposed to pollen, they would bear some risk of asthmatic symptoms," said lead author Curt DellaValle, of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies."The biggest thing, th...

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