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Other Treatments for Asthma
Follow the links below to find information about managing and treating asthma using specific therapies, such as exercise, diet, biological therapies, physiotherapy and complementary therapies.
Reviewed September 2011
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Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Asthma
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Links to information about complementary and alternative therapies used for treating asthma.
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Links to information about exercise therapy for asthma sufferers, including breathing exercises.
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| Title: | Dietary sodium manipulation and asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | A review of the current literature suggests that reduction in the amount of dietary sodium consumed has no significant effect on the symptoms of asthma but may be associated with improvements in some lung function measurements in exercise-induced asthma. |
| Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Title: | Gold as an oral corticosteroid sparing agent in stable asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Some people need to rely on corticosteroid drugs to control their asthma. Corticosteroids help reduce the inflammation (swelling) of the airways (passages to the lungs) associated with asthma. Long-term use of these drugs has serious adverse effects, so... |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Pneumococcal vaccine for asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Pneumonia is a serious illness for people who have asthma and pneumococcal vaccine has been studied to see if it reduces illness or death in those people. A thorough search for randomised controlled trials of pneumococcal vaccine in asthma has found onl... |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Immunotherapy |
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| Publisher: | Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) |
| Description: | Immunotherapy, often referred to as 'desensitisation' or 'allergy shots', is the closest thing to a 'cure' for allergy, particularly for allergies to stinging insects or pollen. |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Dietary marine fatty acids (fish oil) for asthma in adults and children |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Eating more fish has been recommended as one way of possibly reducing asthma. Populations (such as Eskimo communities) with diets high in fish also have low rates of asthma. As diets in other communities have become higher in saturated fats, asthma has ... |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Asthma and travelling - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | If you have asthma, find out how best to prepare for a holiday and manage your asthma while away. |
| Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Title: | Asthma and influenza - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Although influenza is not normally dangerous for healthy people, it can be more serious if you have other health problems, such as asthma. |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Injection allergen immunotherapy for asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Injecting allergens under the skin (allergen specific immunotherapy) can reduce asthma and use of medication and improve the sensitivity of the lungs, but with a risk of severe reactions. Asthma attacks can be caused by allergies, pollens, cigarette sm... |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Vaccines for preventing influenza in people with asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Influenza (flu) is a highly infectious disease, caused by viruses. Influenza has been thought to cause asthma attacks. Few trials have been carried out in a way that tests whether asthma attacks following influenza infection (as opposed to following the... |
| Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Title: | Psychological interventions for adults with asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | It is thought by some that psychological interventions can help people with asthma. Systematically, we searched the literature on psychological interventions to find valid studies that looked at the effects of providing mainly psychological intervention... |
| Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Title: | Psychological interventions for children with asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | It is thought that psychological factors may play an important part in asthma, although this could not be determined in a previous review of psychological interventions in adults with asthma. Although there were twelve studies in this review that met in... |
| Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Title: | Family therapy for asthma in children |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Psychological factors may have an effect on asthma in children, or its severity. As some children with families who are having problems have severe asthma, family therapy has been tried. The aim is to resolve any problems there might be in a family, in ... |
| Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Title: | Calorie controlled diet for chronic asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | It is thought that high calorie diets may contribute to the development of asthma. Theoretically, reducing the amount of calorie consumed as part of a diet may help to alleviate the symptoms of asthma. This review was limited by the small size of the st... |
| Date: | May 2006 |
| Title: | Tartrazine exclusion for allergic asthma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Tartrazine is the best known and one of the most commonly used food additives. Food colorants are also used in many medications as well as foods. There is no evidence that tartrazine makes asthma worse or avoiding it makes asthma patients any better. |
| Date: | Feb 2006 |
| Title: | Immunotherapy for allergic disorders |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | Immunotherapy can be an effective and safe treatment for reducing allergic reactivity to a number of inhaled and injected allergens. It can be used for the treatment of problematic respiratory allergic disorders that are not responding well to environmental measures and drug treatment. |
| Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Title: | Allergy, asthma and milk |
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| Publisher: | Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) |
| Description: | In most people, unless they are confirmed to be allergic to milk or other foods, diet restrictions are of little benefit in asthma or hay fever, and distracts efforts away from more productive areas such as allergen avoidance. |
| Date: | Jul 2002 |
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