Breathe Right Now: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Treating the Most Common Breathing - Softcover
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A unique guide makes use of the latest research and medical breakthroughs to direct sufferers of allergies, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and other respiratory disorders to a wide range of effective medical and non-drug treatments. Reprint.
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Laurence A. Smolley, M.D., is a pulmonologist with the Cleveland Clinic Florida in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<br><br>Debra Fulghum Bruce is former editor in chief of <b>Living Well Today</b> and the author or coauthor of forty books, including most recently <b>Super Aspirin Cure for Arthritis</b>. She lives in Orlando, Florida.
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d news for millions of Americans who suffer from respiratory disorders! Medical breakthroughs and nondrug therapies now provide quick relief and long-term help for everyone with breathing disorders--including athletes hampered by exercise-induced asthma, smokers experiencing shortness of breath, and children plagued by colds or allergies. This comprehensive guide provides up-to-date information about strides in diagnosis, prevention, controls, and cures--including many remedies that didn't exist until recently. Created by a pulmonologist and a medical writer, <b>Breathe Right Now</b> offers treatment options that include a full range of mind/body and alternative therapies, and a breath of hope for an active, healthier life. Discover:<br><br> Amazing New Asthma Treatments<br> Oxygen Therapy for COPD<br> Healing Herbs for Sinusitis and Bronchitis<br> Acupuncture for Allergies<br> Medications to prevent nearly 100% of asthma attacks<br> Filters
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Introduction: New Hope for Better Breathing
Everyone has experienced breathing difficulties from time to time. For some people, these symptoms subside, and they can move on with their lives. But for millions who suffer daily with breathing disorders, such debilitating symptoms as coughing, sneezing, stuffy nose, breathlessness, and wheezing are relentless and cause poor quality of life. Many claim that breathing problems have ruined much of their lives. You deserve to know that with today's treatment options; it does not have to be that way.
Perhaps you are thinking, "This book will not help me. My nose is constantly congested and just thinking about exercise causes shortness of breath." Well, we have good news! We have experienced all types of respiratory disorders, both professionally and personally. As a pulmonologist and sleep disorders specialist, Dr. Smolley's professional experience in treating respiratory diseases for the past sixteen years keeps him acutely aware of breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment. Debra Fulghum Bruce has a strong genetic link in her family to allergy, sinusitis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with every member in her immediate and extended family suffering from some type of respiratory symptom daily. It is her personal challenge to find answers to help those closest to her.
Dr. Laurence Smolley
In medical school and during my internship-residency training, I enjoyed learning about all the various specialties of medicine. I particularly treasured the time spent in the "Chest" building at the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, where I helped care for patients with the whole gamut of respiratory diseases. My supervising physicians were excellent role models, and I admired them very much.
However, the reason that I chose to apply for a fellowship in pulmonary diseases was because of a tragic personal experience. One summer when I was home from college, my father died right before my eyes during a sudden attack of shortness of breath. Clumsy resuscitative attempts did not work, and the paramedics from 911 in New York City arrived far too late. I know my father died an early death at age fifty-nine, because he ignored the warning signs and symptoms of disease. Perhaps if he knew more and sought treatment earlier, he would still be alive today.
The symptom of shortness of breath, along with a host of other breathing difficulties, has intrigued me over the years. Figuring out the exact cause of the problem is essential before proper treatment can be applied. My experience dealing with patients with respiratory diseases has shown me that those who are best informed and take an active role in their medical care generally have fewer hospitalizations and longer lifespans.
I know that the treatment choices in this book really do work. These options have helped thousands of sufferers across the country regain the ability to breathe clearly, and, thus, improve quality of life.
Debra Fulghum Bruce
My experience with respiratory diseases is very personal and serves as motivation for writing this book. As a child, I grew up thinking that nasal congestion, sinus drainage, and coughing on arising or during exercise were normal. After all, no one in my family could breathe well, suffering as they did from both allergy and asthma, so these symptoms were all I knew. Even as young as five years old, I was given a cup of strong coffee on awakening to help open clogged airways. On school days, my mother would warn, "Don't run at recess if you have trouble breathing."
Although I was oblivious to our family history, I vaguely remember my parents talking about my paternal grandfather who had bronchiectasis, an older cousin who died of complications of asthma, an aunt who suffered with emphysema, and several relatives on my mother's side who had constant headaches from chronic sinusitis. When I got a cold and had to stay home because of "funny whistles in my chest (bronchial asthma)," again, I figured this was "normal." You will learn in this book that these symptoms are not "normal," and there is treatment!
After I was married (to a man who had childhood asthma) and our third child, Ashley, was born, I was forced to begin a personal quest for answers to better breathing. Ashley had fluid in her ears the first year of life, along with a host of skin allergies. During the preschool years, she began to have frequent bouts of bronchitis and sinusitis. At age seven, after a lengthy bout of the flu and bronchitis, Ashley went through allergy testing and was diagnosed with many allergies and chronic asthma. She was not alone: our older children, Rob and Brittnye, were also diagnosed with allergies and asthma and suffered daily from symptoms of nasal congestion, coughing, or wheezing.
It was at a family reunion that I realized someone had to take immediate action to find relief for our strong genetic predisposition to breathing problems. While sitting with a group of relatives, I will never forget how several aunts, uncles, and cousins took puffs from asthma inhalers to open swollen airways. Conversation centered on who had tried the latest nonsedating antihistamines or who had found relief for sinus pain and pressure. Later that evening, I felt hopeless as I surveyed our family's medicine closet. It was filled with inhaler boxes and canisters, bottles of over-the-counter decongestants and antihistamines, prescription antibiotics, and steroid nasal sprays, to mention just a few.
Today, I know there is hope. Through regular visits with our allergist, talking with many health care professionals across the country, and doing years of research, I have realized that everyone deserves the opportunity to breathe right now. No matter what respiratory problems you face, we will show you a wealth of available treatments that will allow you to have the highest quality of life, including exercise. And the best way to better breathing is to educate yourself about the problem, then work as a team with your physician and your family using the proactive steps as outlined in this book.
We've Found the Answers
We wrote this book to offer new hope to those who wake up each day struggling for breath and are frustrated through the day when breathlessness occurs with minimal exertion. Throughout this book, you will learn how some of the country's finest health care professionals treat breathing disorders with both conventional medicine and complementary methods such as biofeedback or acupuncture. You will find accurate descriptions and explanations of the most common breathing problems and learn the latest, most effective methods for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Because almost everyone who suffers from one breathing problem is likely to have others, we have written the first book that covers most common breathing disorders. For example, you may suffer with allergy and asthma and then develop emphysema or chronic bronchitis from smoking. To breathe optimally, you must recognize the specific diseases and promptly seek prevention and treatment measures that are likely to be effective.
As you identify your particular problem, it is important to realize that you are not alone. An estimated 60 million people in the United States today have allergy and asthma. Another 20...
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