Big Increase In Asthma Inhalers.

[10ClarionSt]

This has been reported today. A big increase in the number of people requiring Asthma inhalers. As a so-called baby boomer, this baffles me for reasons I've stated many times on here. Aren't we the lucky ones? Part of the ageing population? Never had it so good? We lived through massive pollution; coal fires, smog, heavy industry, passive smoking everywhere throughout childhood. I didn't know anyone who had Asthma. I'd never heard of it for years. Since those days we've had the clean air act; cat converters; unleaded fuel; massive reduction in heavy industry; greatly improved medical care and yet there is now an unprecedented demand for Asthma treatment. Todays generation are a bunch of weaklings running to the doctors for anti-biotics as soon as they get a sniffle. I suppose if you think you're ill, then you will be.

[wolf63]

My mother was asthmatic. She died at the age of 58 as a result. I am very mildly asthmatic.

My little boy cat, Frankie, is also asthmatic and has an inhaler that he refuses to use. He is on daily medication.

It may be possible that people are no longer willing to put up with annoying coughs and they go and see their doctor (or vet) and asthma is then diagnosed.

Frankie's first attack was horrendous and was caused by me spraying Febreze around the room. I thought that he was going to die.

[Eleena]

Hi Clarion, asthma has just got me out of bed early! Asthma runs in my family, I too worked in a cotton mill. The stress link is real, cold temps, those two things affect me.

[Eleena]

Clarion, which mill did your mum work in?

[woofgang]

and, of course fighting for breath is stressful which doesn’t help....

[Peter Pedant]

// We know all about pollutuin, smoking etc, BUT we do know, but do not know why...STRESS plays a part in asthmatic attacks. //

funny sqad - funny peculiar that is - that my late father was gonna write a general practice paper on asthma being worsened by stress - and then noted morosely in his diary that the idea ( but not data ) was abandoned - because he went to the library and found what he had described had All been Written Before .....
the date ? Oh January 1945 - just before the end of the war in Germany. the place - nuremberg POW camp

[237SJ]

I could never understrand why I used to get so breathless when I climbed up hills when I was a kid. I have climbed Kilimanjaro (a gentle gradient) and Table Mountain (steps) When I climbed steps I became so breathless that I couldn't speak and climb at the same time. It was only when a friend of mine who was a COPD nurse gave me a Ventolin inhaler a few years ago that I realised that I have exercise induced asthama. Looking back, I think a few people in my family had the same condition. Maybe people are more aware of the condition now

[Eleena]

Hi Clarion, the Croma mill sounds familiar to me! I worked in Moston mill , then Fox mill Hollinwood. I can remember seeing all the particles in the air in the Summer through the shafts of sunlight coming through the Windows. I don't suppose that environment helped me, though as I said earlier, asthma runs in the family anyway.

[paddywak]

In the village I grew up in many men suffered from "Asthma". Silicosis and pheumoconiosis weren't recognised in those pre H&S days it was easier to call it asthma and avoid any compensation claims.