Does this sound like something you would write?

The following is a common letter that Doctor Hahn regularly receives. He says this is a fairly good example of the types of people with asthma who are likely to respond best to his recommendations.

This letter references adult onset asthma, but keep in mind, in many cases children are also able to cure severe asthma using the antibiotic protocol that Dr. Hahn recommends.

From: -----------
Subject: Need Help with my Asthma

Dear Dr. Hahn,

My name is --------------- and I am 32 years old. I have what you would call "Adult Onset Asthma". I developed asthma about four years ago with no past lung problems/asthma. The asthma symptoms seemed to start following a severe cold that took many many weeks before I felt better. I had the classic runny stuffy nose and then the infection went straight to my chest and lungs.

I have taken everything you could think of for my asthma. Asmanex, Advair, Symbicort, Qvar, Alvesco, and the nasty pill, prednisone. Besides the classic asthma symptoms (tightness of chest, trouble breathing, etc.) I also experience "pain" in my lungs and back. I have also seen an allergist which turned up negative on all allergies and also a gastroenterologist who diagnosed me with reflux.

I tried prilosec for several weeks but that didn't help one bit. Everything I tried has had little to no effect on my asthma symptoms. My pulmonologist is at a loss. All of my lung function tests seem to be normal except I seem to exhibit small airway problems.

About 9 months ago I was placed on Azithromycin for about a week to clear up a nasty chest cold. To my surprise I was asthma free for about a week. I didn't think anything of it and within a few days my asthma was back and was even worse. Now, just last week I went to the doctor again for another chest cold, was placed on Azithromycin, and again was asthma free for about a week. I asked my primary care doctor why was this and he stated it was probably the anti-inflammatory effect of the antibiotics.

I was very curious about why my symptoms would disappear and did some research on the web. I found your research about cases that involve antibiotic therapy and how it seemed to help many asthma sufferers due to an infection from the Chlamydia Pneumoniae and Mycoplasma bacteria.

I am at a loss on what to do for my asthma, four years with little relief is frustrating. I am very interested in your research and learning if I could benefit from the treatments. Unfortunately, you are not covered by my insurance. I am searching for any advice you can offer to help me have relief from my ongoing asthma symptoms or things I can discuss with my pulmonologist. THANK YOU so much for your time and hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

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Upcoming Book

"A Cure for Asthma? What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You - and Why"

is a book being published by
Dr. David Hahn

The book is currently being edited by the publisher and is expected to be available sometime in mid to late 2012.

Recent news ..

(June 2011) Good article from The Grand Rapids Allergy Examiner:

Asthma cure found in Zithromax: hope for the future

More News ..

(July 2010) Wilmore Webley PH.D. sent us some interesting research he was a part of:

Infectious Chlamydia pneumoniae is Associated With Elevated Interleukin-8 and Airway Neutrophilia in Children With Refractory Asthma
$view pdf research Infectious Chlamydia pneumoniae is Associated With Elevated Interleukin-8 and Airway Neutrophilia in Children With Refractory Asthma$
Occurrence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia pneumoniae in paediatric respiratory infections

view pdf research Occurrence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia pneumoniae in paediatric respiratory infections

Science Daily News
(May 25, 2010)Scientists from the University of Massachusetts have developed an animal model that shows how an early childhood lung infection can cause asthma later in life.

view asthma research article Scientists from the University of Massachusetts have developed an animal model that shows how an early childhood lung infection can cause asthma later in life

What are Biofilms?

To educate yourself more on biofilms and why vitamin "D" may be bad when trying to eradicate Chlamydia pneumoniae or Mycoplasma, read this interesting article by Dr. Randall Wolcott, bacterial biofilm wound specialist
and also
The Marshall protocol for biofilms in wound treatment. Highly technical but somewhat related in that it addresses why eradicating bacteria like Chlamydia pneumoniae and mycoplasma can be so difficult.

Clinical Trials

The University of Wisconsin, American Academy of Family Physicians, Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP),The Dean Foundation for Health, Research and Education (Dean Foundation) and Pfizer corporationis sponsoring a study and recruiting volunteers for a study called AZMATICS to determine the effectiveness of Azithromycin as Adjunctive Treatment for Adult Asthma.

Important notice: At this time, the study is no longer recruiting subjects.

If you are interested in learning more about azithromycin treatment for asthma, you may email Dr. Hahn at:
Dr. David Hahn contact information regarding asthma studies and research

Dr. David Hahn contact information regarding asthma studies and research

Dean Foundation

Follow this link to learn more about Dr. David Hahn and the Dean Foundation.

If you are interested in making a donation to The Dean Foundation you can specify that it be used towards infectious asthma research

Support forum

First off, I would like to apologize for abruptly shutting down the support forum several years ago. Besides dealing with hackers, trolls and rude people, I was going through an extremely stressful time in life that resulted in the loss of our youngest son.

It got to be too much to handle so one day I flipped the switch and shut it down.

I know this upset some people so I hope they can accept this apology

Archives for the support forum can be found here. Plenty of good information to research view asthma support forum topics

Old News

The St. Petersburg times ran a story about AsthmaStory just before I started my Appalachian trail journey

St. Petersburg Times article about near fatal asthma attack

In the beginning

Several newspaper articles about the near fatal asthma attack.

Article 1

Royal Oak Tribune article about near fatal asthma attack

Another article about near fatal asthma attack

Article 2

Serious Stuff !

Every year thousands of people die while experiencing a severe asthma attack.

Take your Asthma or the Asthma of a loved one very seriously !

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ASTHMA AND INFECTION
Recommendations for interested Physicians
by
DAVID L. HAHN, MD. MS.

Recommendations for physicians by Dr. Hahn

For the past 12 years the pharmaceuticals and health products industry represent the top industry when it comes to financing lobbiest that influence our laws and federal policies (FDA).

No wonder this research still hasn't made it mainstream while drugs like oxycodone / oxycontin are freely dispensed. Killing and addicting millions.

Then again, it's all about money isn't it?

Click here to view drug industry lobbiest rankings for past 12 years

With so much information exploding all around us,
finding a nugget of knowledge is not nearly as important as
what we do with it.

The National Lung Association reports that
The annual direct health care cost of asthma is approximately $15.6 billion; indirect costs (e.g. lost productivity) add another $5.1 billion, for a total of $20.7 billion dollars. Prescription drugs represented the largest single direct cost, at $5.6 billion.

In 2008, it was estimated that 23.3 million Americans currently have asthma. Of these, 12.7 million Americans (4.1 million children under 18) had an asthma attack

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