Re: NIH Asthma Guidelines Will Leave Sufferers Breathing Easier This Spring

[Guest guest]

The role of allergy testing in asthma management is important

the importance of keeping asthma under control through four critical

components of asthma care, including:

control of environmental factors contributing to asthma severity,

providers can recommend avoidance strategies, so that patients can

minimize their exposure to triggers, which collectively are

responsible for patients to make necessary adjustments to their

environment

Children cannot make the " necessary adjustments to their environments "

when they are in sick schools and inferior moldy rentals and

compromised homes, now can they? How can they practice avoidance

strategies when they are required to go to schools with water

saturated ceiling tiles, rain pouring into their classroom, two feet

of standing water in their boiler rooms, flooding in their bathrooms

saturating the asbestos laden floor tiles,pesticide application in

their buildings and on their grass areas, landfill contamination

seeping from the soil they sit on during PE classes, etc.? And now

California is saying that home schooling is illegal in California. So

even parents who are trying to practice avoidance strategies are going

to be compelled to bring their children back into the toxic soup of

many public school situations. Doctors need to align themselves with

parents who are trying to practice avoidance strategies for their

children by keeping them out of sick public buildings.