The proportion of Americans with asthma increased from 7.3% in 2001 to 8.4% in 2010, marking the highest level ever, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
In 2010, an estimated 18.7 million adults and 7 million children had the disease — one in every 12 Americans. Overall, about 29.1 million adults have been diagnosed with asthma at some point in their lives, but many of those were misdiagnosed or have apparently recovered, leading to the current figure of 18.7 million.
Asthma is a chronic airway disorder characterized by periods of irreversible airflow obstruction caused by inflammation of the airway and contraction of small muscles surrounding it. It can be triggered by exercise, infections, allergies, occupational exposures and airborne irritants such as tobacco smoke. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath and chest tightness. Symptoms can usually be controlled with a variety of drugs, but there is no known cure and no known way to prevent development of the disorder.
No doubt this alleged rise in asthma correlates to increases in particulate CO2. At least one could be forgiven for making this supposition based on all the talk of CO2 being “dirty carbon” and a “pollutant”.
Too many people are making a buck passing this crap off as “science”.
What do you suppose it would do to the budget of the CDC is they consistently reported that things were getting better and not worse?
Particulate CO2 would be dry ice, when they mention particulate carbon, they are probably talking about soot or PM. PM2.5 and other noseeums are becoming the bigger buggaboo. If you look at the CDC website you can get a chart of the asthma rates going up. The EPA website has particulate matter (PM) decreasing over the same period, but they keep making noise about PM2.5 and coal plants. The LA Times article didn’t mention the supposed association with acetaminophen with asthma http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/health/evidence-mounts-linking-acetaminophen-and-asthma.html. Has that been discredited?
They were saying “recognized”. There ARE herbal remedies for asthma, but unless you’re going to a Naturalpathic physician, you won’t hear of them. Because Asthma is triggered by “inflamation”, ascorbic-acid crystals would help pre-attack, but will support few but Naturalpaths. Ascorbic-acid crystals have a secretion-reducing effect(–antihistaminic), without making the child sleepy, and in liquids have a “lemony” taste that will not be “hurt” by stevia-sweetening to taste. As many “bugs” grow on acidic blood, ascorbic-acid also “makes alkaline, the blood. Ascorbic-acid is paired with one anti-biotic that is Nephrotoxic, to prevent Kidney failure due to the drug, so it can be “mixed” without harm, –consult your doctor. Common sugars/starches make the blood acidic, encouraging infections, cancers, “bugs”, molds, flu, viruses. The military use ascorbic-acid crystals dissolved in sterile IV-preps to repress infections in burned soldiers. Imo, ascobic-acid could prevent many pneumonias,–one of which took Carole Shelby of “Cobra” fame lately. This advice is “free”, so of course, it’s “suspect.” The average goat MAKES up to 13 grams of Vit C in its own body/day, which is why they can eat just about anything and thrive. Humans are about the only mammal that doesn’t make its own Ascorbic-acid internally. The recent study “damning” ascobic-acid did NOT USE ENOUGH, allowing only 10 grams/human/day. The therapuetic level was simply NOT reached, so your favorite drug companies can “claim” Vit C “doesn’t work! The RDA of 60 mg, will only maintain someone already in PERFECT health, 30 years of age,sitting in a jail cell, vegging-out.
Jek, I’ve read a lot of your posts, and I’m going out own a limb here. I’m going to guess that you are in high school. Well, I hope you are in high school. You believe all these things, but you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the majority of them.
You cannot have acidic blood. Your blood is between a pH of 7.35 and 7.45. If you leave that range, enzymes stop working, and you die very quickly.
Even if your blood was not heavily buffered, not amount of ascorbic acid can make your blood basic. That’s like turning up the fire to cool down the pot. It makes no sense in any way. Acid+Acid = More acid.
Plus, acid “crystals” disolve in water. That’s how acid works. Your insistences on stating that these are crystals shows your ignorance of the basic states of matter.
I can only conclude from this that the reduction of smog, cigarette smoking, smokestack emissions, and steel production and the overall increase in air quality increases asthma. That, or asthmatic sensitivity is unrelated to assumed triggers.
“diagnosed with asthma”
Just saw a story on Fox News. CDC is now reporting 34 million with asthma. Over 10%. Female anchor says, “I don’t know anyone with asthma.”
I doubt this “diagnosed” stuff. I think they called a thousand people, and asked if they or their kids had asthma. 10 percent said yes. Hardly a medical “diagnosis.” Since the data met their agenda, they called the press.