Scientists hail asthma breakthrough
Rebecca Camber
June 15 2005
Scientists in Manchester have reached a "key milestone" in their study of the treatment of severe asthma, it emerged today.
The Manchester University researchers have discovered that the condition
can be triggered by an allergic reaction to types of fungi - such
as household mould, damp and dead leaves.
They are now testing a drug which could prevent sufferers having the sort of attacks that require hospital treatment. Previously, severe asthma attacks have been blamed on air pollutants like dust mites, pollen or animal hair.
But the scientists, based at Manchester's Wythenshawe Hospital, believe they have found a new culprit. Their research shows the condition can also be caused by tiny spores of common airborne fungi, which outnumber pollen grains by almost 1,000 to one and are invisible to the naked eye.
Although most people do not have a reaction, when severe asthmatics inhale the spores their airways are thought to narrow, making it harder for them to breathe.
Severe asthma in adults affects between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of the UK's five million asthmatics, and skin tests indicated that up to 70 per cent of these sufferers were allergic to at least one type of airborne fungi.
The scientists are now starting a trial to test a drug, which could kill the fungus inhaled into the body and prevent attacks, on 100 asthmatics. The antibiotic would not provide a cure for all asthmatics because it is only severe strains of the condition that are triggered by fungi, but it could still save countless lives.
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(June 2011) Good article from The Grand Rapids Allergy Examiner:
Asthma cure found in Zithromax: hope for the future
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(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
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.
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.
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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:
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If you are interested in making a donation to The Dean Foundation you can specify that it be used towards infectious asthma research
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No wonder this research still hasn't made it mainstream while drugs like oxycodone / oxycontin are freely dispensed. Killing and addicting millions.
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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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