Asthma affects breathing. When an asthma sufferer comes into contact with an allergen it triggers an irritation in the airways. The muscles around the walls of the airways (the small tubes that carry air in and out of the lungs) get tighter, the linings becomes inflamed, and so become narrower. Sometimes sticky mucus or phlegm can further narrow the airways. As this happens it make it difficult to breath and leading to symptoms of asthma.
- In 2000, GP's in the UK saw over 18,000 cases relating to new asthma attacks each week.
- The number of new cases of asthma each year is now 3 to 4 times higher in adults and 6 times higher in children than it was 25 years ago.
- Of 56 countries surveyed, the UK has the fifth highest prevalence rate (20.7%) for asthma in 13 to 14 year olds.
- Asthma attacks now cost the UK an estimated £1.2 billion in lost productivity, £850 million in NHS treatment and a further £161 million in social security costs.
- Over 18 million working days are lost to asthma each year
- 5.2 million people in the UK are currently receiving treatment for asthma: this includes 1.1 million children (1 in 10 children) and 4.1 million adults (1 in 12 adults).
- There is a person with asthma in one in five households in the UK.
- There were 1,381 deaths from asthma in the UK in 2004 (40 were children aged 14 years or under). On average, 4 people per day or 1 person every 6 hours dies from asthma.
- An estimated 75% of hospital admissions for asthma are avoidable and as many as 90% of the deaths from asthma are preventable.
- 42% of people with asthma say that traffic fumes stop them walking and shopping in congested areas
- 40% of people with asthma avoid smoky pubs and restaurants
- 56% of people with asthma are sensitive to pet allergens
So Asthma is yet another disease that has reached epidemic proportions during the 20th century - the century during which ConMed, and its drugs and vaccines, have become dominant.
The drug Acetaminophen, a pain killer and fever reducer found in the common painkiller, Paracetomol (Tylenol in the USA), and many other over-the-counter drugs, have now been linked to asthma. Natural News reported on 24th November 2009 that Canadian researchers at the University of British Columbia conducted a detailed analysis of 19 clinical studies, involving 425,140 people, that linked asthma to this drug. The found that the drug significantly raised the odds of having asthma (and remember, this drug is used in Paracetomol.
"The analysis specifically showed a worrisome risk of asthma in children who had been given acetaminophen in the year prior to their asthma diagnosis, or in the first year of life".
So, another major modern disease is known to be caused by one of the commonest painkilling drugs used in conventional medicine.
It is also accepted, by the drug manufacturers, that the universal DPT vaccine causes ‘respiratory track infections’, and ‘difficulty breathing’. So this vaccine, given routinely to all babies from about 3 months old, may also be implicated. The connection is confirmed in the following links”
Vaccine induced asthma and also here, for more details.
So what about the connection between asthma and antibiotics? This webpage discusses the connection. And this webpage, from the Asthma Foundation, makes reference to 21 studies that have made the connection, although it seems to be mainly concerned with dismissing the evidence, although it concluded that a ‘causal relationship’ could not be dismissed.
So it is quite possible that a drug, antibiotics, used to treat asthma is actually causing asthma! It would seem that our drug companies profit from illness in many interconnect ways!
This article was first published here, on my email book, "The Failure of Conventional Medicine"
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