Re: cold aggrevating asthma

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I think you should see your GP a cold shouldn't last a month. I've just got over a really bad cold and a week later caught another one. You may have a chest infection, which really will screw with your asthma. Go to your GP or doctor and see what he says. It was an under lying chest infection with me.

Lynn M

-- cold aggrevating asthma

I have a nasty cold, and it's really aggrevating my asthma. I usually use my rescue inhaler about once a month, and I've had to use it three times just today. Even with the rescue inhaler, my breathing's not great. How do I get through this cold?

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I think you should see your GP a cold shouldn't last a month. I've just got over a really bad cold and a week later caught another one. You may have a chest infection, which really will screw with your asthma. Go to your GP or doctor and see what he says. It was an under lying chest infection with me.

Lynn M

-- cold aggrevating asthma

I have a nasty cold, and it's really aggrevating my asthma. I usually use my rescue inhaler about once a month, and I've had to use it three times just today. Even with the rescue inhaler, my breathing's not great. How do I get through this cold?

[Guest guest]

I'm having the same problem. When it gets real bad I go outside for a min. The cold air helps.

-- cold aggrevating asthma

I have a nasty cold, and it's really aggrevating my asthma. I

usually use my rescue inhaler about once a month, and I've had to use

it three times just today. Even with the rescue inhaler, my

breathing's not great. How do I get through this cold?

[Guest guest]

I'm having the same problem. When it gets real bad I go outside for a min. The cold air helps.

-- cold aggrevating asthma

I have a nasty cold, and it's really aggrevating my asthma. I

usually use my rescue inhaler about once a month, and I've had to use

it three times just today. Even with the rescue inhaler, my

breathing's not great. How do I get through this cold?

[Guest guest]

,

I don't know where you live, but make sure you have enough moisture in

the air, pots of water on the stove or a humidifier live in northern

Michigan and our houses get really dry at this time of the year, which

makes one cough more.

If I have a cold I add some thyme and sage to a pot of water on the

stove boiling away..

Best to not drink cold drinks,but hot ones, so the mucous stays flowing

and can come out, like chicken broth or teas with honey. saline

irrigations for a stuffy nose work wonders for me.

Have your Doc prescribe you meds to help with the cough..

However, that addresses the cold, if it's asthma, don't hesitate to go

to the ER for breathing treatments.

C-M

[Guest guest]

My Doc told me if I feel like I am needing air AND it is not an asthma problem, turn on a fan to circulate some air. It does help. Of course if you live in a cold place it is not as good as the cold air, opens me right up. BUT I have to keep my nose and mouth covered or I do have an asthma problem.

Too warm a room also doesn't help for asthmatics with colds 68-70 is about tops for me. Anything after that the heat goes down or the door gets opened till it cools down. (My husband goes a bit crazy with the wood stove in the garage, which we live above but the floors are nice and warm and the stove stack is 30' in the air, helps on fuel for the boiler too)

in Alaska

cold aggrevating asthma

I have a nasty cold, and it's really aggrevating my asthma. I

usually use my rescue inhaler about once a month, and I've had to use

it three times just today. Even with the rescue inhaler, my

breathing's not great. How do I get through this cold?

[Guest guest]

My Doc told me if I feel like I am needing air AND it is not an asthma problem, turn on a fan to circulate some air. It does help. Of course if you live in a cold place it is not as good as the cold air, opens me right up. BUT I have to keep my nose and mouth covered or I do have an asthma problem.

Too warm a room also doesn't help for asthmatics with colds 68-70 is about tops for me. Anything after that the heat goes down or the door gets opened till it cools down. (My husband goes a bit crazy with the wood stove in the garage, which we live above but the floors are nice and warm and the stove stack is 30' in the air, helps on fuel for the boiler too)

in Alaska

cold aggrevating asthma

I have a nasty cold, and it's really aggrevating my asthma. I

usually use my rescue inhaler about once a month, and I've had to use

it three times just today. Even with the rescue inhaler, my

breathing's not great. How do I get through this cold?

[Guest guest]

Bronchitis, you wanna bet! It will probably take antibiotics. You probably also need an expectorant.

cold aggrevating asthma

I have a nasty cold, and it's really aggrevating my asthma. I usually use my rescue inhaler about once a month, and I've had to use it three times just today. Even with the rescue inhaler, my breathing's not great. How do I get through this cold?

[Guest guest]

Bronchitis, you wanna bet! It will probably take antibiotics. You probably also need an expectorant.

cold aggrevating asthma

I have a nasty cold, and it's really aggrevating my asthma. I usually use my rescue inhaler about once a month, and I've had to use it three times just today. Even with the rescue inhaler, my breathing's not great. How do I get through this cold?