asthma and stress
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-=-My son has both eczema and asthma. I've never heard anyone claim
If you go to google.com and enter asthma and stress you'll get several
current studies--Helsinki, Australia, Scotland, U.S. (National Jewish-Med
Sci). Two excerpts and then a comment:
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Chronically-stressed children are far more likely to have asthma attacks than
less-stressed children, experts have found.
The link between stressful lives and wheeziness could result from damage to
the immune system, they say.
The research, carried out at the University of Helsinki in Finland, is
published in the Lancet medical journal.
Stress has already been blamed in adults for contributing to heart disease
and even cancer and in children to appendicitis or rheumatoid arthritis.
And even the children of excessively anxious parents have been found to be
more likely to develop asthma.
The researchers followed a group of asthma 90 child patients in Glasgow, aged
between six and 13 for 18 months, noting when they had attacks, and finding
out about the stressful events in their lives.
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A small but growing body of evidence points to a relationship between
psychosocial stress and the early onset of asthma in children who have a
genetic predisposition to the disease. Specifically, clinical judgment of
"early parenting difficulties" has been found to be a significant predictor
for the development of asthma among genetically at-risk children.
The W.T. Grant Foundation Asthma Risk Study was designed to prospectively
examine children who were considered to be at a genetically increased risk of
developing asthma. Since the longitudinal study began in 1985, researchers
have monitored both physiological and psychological factors among 150
families with the intent of identifying risk factors for illness expression.
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Stress doesn't cause asthma from nothing, there's genetic pre-disposition and
often allergies make it worse, but stress clearly makes it worse, and I think
making a BIG deal about controlling (i.e. changing a child's life and
limiting it severely in honor of his asthma) is stress all in and of itself.
Sandra
> that there are emotional factors involved with them. -=-It's worth checking it out.
If you go to google.com and enter asthma and stress you'll get several
current studies--Helsinki, Australia, Scotland, U.S. (National Jewish-Med
Sci). Two excerpts and then a comment:
-----------
Chronically-stressed children are far more likely to have asthma attacks than
less-stressed children, experts have found.
The link between stressful lives and wheeziness could result from damage to
the immune system, they say.
The research, carried out at the University of Helsinki in Finland, is
published in the Lancet medical journal.
Stress has already been blamed in adults for contributing to heart disease
and even cancer and in children to appendicitis or rheumatoid arthritis.
And even the children of excessively anxious parents have been found to be
more likely to develop asthma.
The researchers followed a group of asthma 90 child patients in Glasgow, aged
between six and 13 for 18 months, noting when they had attacks, and finding
out about the stressful events in their lives.
-----------
A small but growing body of evidence points to a relationship between
psychosocial stress and the early onset of asthma in children who have a
genetic predisposition to the disease. Specifically, clinical judgment of
"early parenting difficulties" has been found to be a significant predictor
for the development of asthma among genetically at-risk children.
The W.T. Grant Foundation Asthma Risk Study was designed to prospectively
examine children who were considered to be at a genetically increased risk of
developing asthma. Since the longitudinal study began in 1985, researchers
have monitored both physiological and psychological factors among 150
families with the intent of identifying risk factors for illness expression.
-----------
Stress doesn't cause asthma from nothing, there's genetic pre-disposition and
often allergies make it worse, but stress clearly makes it worse, and I think
making a BIG deal about controlling (i.e. changing a child's life and
limiting it severely in honor of his asthma) is stress all in and of itself.
Sandra
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Yep -- a study confirming my own experience. DH has asthma, and he
KNEW Seth would have asthma, just absolutely knew it. He never
developed it, but I firmly believe if I had also "known" Seth would
develop asthma, he would have. At an early check-up, the pede
thought she heard Seth wheezing a bit when he coughed, and she wanted
to prescribe steroids. I took the course of waiting for the body to
tell us what it needed to heal, and gave him no medications. He's
been absolutely fine and healthy since. (Nearly 3 years) I believe
if I had panicked, given him the steroids, watched like a hawk for
wheezing, hovered, etc., my expectations of asthma would have been
realized.
Caren
KNEW Seth would have asthma, just absolutely knew it. He never
developed it, but I firmly believe if I had also "known" Seth would
develop asthma, he would have. At an early check-up, the pede
thought she heard Seth wheezing a bit when he coughed, and she wanted
to prescribe steroids. I took the course of waiting for the body to
tell us what it needed to heal, and gave him no medications. He's
been absolutely fine and healthy since. (Nearly 3 years) I believe
if I had panicked, given him the steroids, watched like a hawk for
wheezing, hovered, etc., my expectations of asthma would have been
realized.
Caren
--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., SandraDodd@a... wrote:
> And even the children of excessively anxious parents have been
found to be
> more likely to develop asthma.
>
Specifically, clinical judgment of
> "early parenting difficulties" has been found to be a significant
predictor
> for the development of asthma among genetically at-risk children.
>
Allison Crilly
How can you possibly know that your son doesn't have asthma just because you didn't want him to? I didn't think that my son would have asthma (the eczema mostly comes from his dad's side), didn't give him the medication he was prescribed at 6 months because I had been warned by a nurse that given ventilin causes the lungs to depend on ventilin. I didn't smoke, didn't expose him to smoke or other typical allergens, and live in a city that is very dry, has very low asthma rates. None of this stopped my son from having asthma. As it's been said, stress will exacerbate an attack (if my son has already been wheezing, and he gets in trouble, it will turn into a full blown attack), but the causes of both asthma and eczema are extremely complex.
Allison
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: carenkh@...
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: asthma and stress
Yep -- a study confirming my own experience. DH has asthma, and he
KNEW Seth would have asthma, just absolutely knew it. He never
developed it, but I firmly believe if I had also "known" Seth would
develop asthma, he would have. At an early check-up, the pede
thought she heard Seth wheezing a bit when he coughed, and she wanted
to prescribe steroids. I took the course of waiting for the body to
tell us what it needed to heal, and gave him no medications. He's
been absolutely fine and healthy since. (Nearly 3 years) I believe
if I had panicked, given him the steroids, watched like a hawk for
wheezing, hovered, etc., my expectations of asthma would have been
realized.
Caren
--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., SandraDodd@a... wrote:
> And even the children of excessively anxious parents have been
found to be
> more likely to develop asthma.
>
Specifically, clinical judgment of
> "early parenting difficulties" has been found to be a significant
predictor
> for the development of asthma among genetically at-risk children.
>
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