Angelina Alforque knows an asthma attack can come at any time. The 55-year-old Vallejo woman sleeps with an asthma drug inhaler tucked safely under her pillow. She keeps one in the car, another on the kitchen table and, always, one in her purse.``All of the sudden, you wheeze,'' said Alforque, recovering at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, where she was hospitalized with asthma last month. ``You cough. Then you choke. Then you...
MANAGING ASTHMA ALSO ON LESSON PLAN, HEALTH: L.B. SCHOOLS TEACHING KIDS, PARENTS TO COPE WITH CONDITION.
Asthma educator Rangell Oruga sits holding up cartoon drawings of asthma triggers - a cockroach, a dust pan, a cloud of pollution emitted from an airplane, a detergent bottle - as six elementary kids listen.``Does anybody remember what an asthma trigger is?'' he asks the wide-eyed youngsters around a table at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School. ``An asthma trigger is like what causes you to wheeze,'' one boy volunteers, ``like strong smells or...
EACH CHILD NEEDS UNIQUE PLAN TO CONTROL ASTHMA
Asthma is the most common chronic problem among children. In fact, the American Lung Association says children make up about one-third of the nation's 20 million asthma sufferers.The statistics are even more dramatic closer to home: In some areas of St. Louis, 15 to 20 percent of children suffer from asthma, more than double the national average of 6.3 percent, according to studies by the St. Louis Regional Asthma Consortium. Asthma is a chronic disease that affects the...
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