Posts Tagged ‘ASTHMA’

Help. I'm dating a girl with bad asthma and/or allergies to cigarette smoke and I smoke. What do I do?

I’m at wits end here. I’ve been seeing this girl for over a month and I like her a lot. The problem is she’s developed a bad reaction to smoke…to the point where she hurts for the rest of day, like stomach pains hours after an attack.

The big problem is my roommate and I have been smoking inside our apartment for over a year. I leave my windows open 24/7 and we have an ionic air purifier in the living room. The two times she’s stayed over my place, she was fine at first, but hours later, she’ll be in pain.

Her strong reaction to smoke only became apparent to her when after the second time she stayed over. She’s always disliked smoke because it used to just make her cough and/or tickle her throat, but now bad pain? She’s seen a doctor and she now has an inhaler, but is afraid to use it.

So, she’s afraid to come to my place now. I’ve removed all ashtrays from my room and quit smoking inside. Can smoke ‘stain’ a wall where it still triggers an asthma attack even if no one..
…even if no one has smoked inside for over a week and continues to not smoke inside? If that is true, is there a way to clean my apartment walls so it doesn’t trigger an attack, like burning a nice smelling candle or wiping the walls?
Would an air purifier in my room help out? Which air purifiers are good?

To her and my knowledge, nothing else causes these bad reactions (i.e. dust, pollen, pet hair, saw dust, etc.etc.)
And as far as quitting smoking goes, don’t think that hasn’t popped into my head, but for the matter at hand, if I hypothetically quit smoking right this instant, it still doesn’t help the fact that the inside of my apartment has been smoked in and that my roommate smokes inside. I’m going to talk to my roommate about it. Trust me, I know I am going to have to quit to continue seeing this girl.

My cat has just been diagonsed with feline asthma…..:-(?

I have a 8 month old ASH. Since last week, his abdomen pumps up and down rapidly 3 to 4 times a day. Since it usually happens after he eats and he hasn’t been coughing, I thought he has digestion problem. Anyhow, I took him to the vet today and they took an x-ray…and the vet told me he has feline asthma. She showed me the x-ray and pointed out "donuts" and white calcified spot in his lungs. I cried so hard at the clinic.

The vet prescribed Prednisolone suspension 3 mg/ml twice a day (1 ml each time) for a week then decrease to once a day then decrease to once every other day. She also prescribed Cyproheptadine 1 mg/ml twice a day as well. She is also doing a fungal screen.

Can any one who has knowledge about feline asthma or has cats with feline asthma share some of your experience with me? Does the medications prescribed sound right? I checked online and it seems like 3 mg/ml twice a day for a 9 lbs cat is a little too much? Does he need to be on medications for the rest of his life? What else can I do to make to help him? I just bought two HEPA air purifiers and changed his litter from pine to yesterday’s news.

THANKS SO MUCH!!
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Thank you so much JC for sharing your experience with me! He started the medicine last night and I am still watching for any improvement.

My cat has been on Hills Science Diet Nature’s Best Dry Kitten Food and Natural Balance Ultra Premium. I added Royal Canin Kitten 36 to his diet last month and it seems like it triggers the asthma but I am not sure.

I have been trying to switch him to can food (tried Wellness, Hills, Nutro) a few times but he just didn’t want it. Do you have any suggestions and tricks?

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asthma…ai purifier?

i have very bad asthma, but only when it comes to being around any cleaning products, pollen, dust…i also have 4 cats and im sure the cat hair starts it up too….i am looking for an ionic breeze or an air purifier, that’s cost effective and also does not eat up a lot of electric so that i can leave it on at all times…anyone have any suggestions or links for them?

Worth investing in air purifier?

I live in an apartment in the middle of the city. My room gets dusty really easily and I have to dust everyday. I don’t have any allergies or asthma problems. My question is, is it worth investing in a good air purifier ( e.g.> 0, HEPA filtration etc, or is it good enough to buy a cheaper air purifier(0) with no HEPA filtration?

Are air purifiers worth the purchase?

http://www.meijer.com/s/crane-germicidal-air-purifier-penguin/_/R-138578?review=true&reload=742#MyReviewHeader

Like I don’t have asthma or anything, just in general is this worth the buy for my bedroom?

My boyfriend who visits a lot wants me to give my kitten away?

He was mad at the beginning when I got the cat because he said he felt left out, and 2nd best because he did not get to be included in picking out the pet but we were broke up at the time. 1 month later he says my kitten makes him very sick, and he has developed bronchitis from his allergies. My daughter and I both have allergies and suffer from asthma, we are o.k. I dust, vacuum daily, and put the cat in another room before he comes in, purchased a 2nd hepa air purifier, use allergen reducer carpet powder, febreze allergen reducer spray, and wash the cat every day. I even offered to buy him Claritin. The cat doesn’t shed much or jump on furniture either He told me to get rid of it or he’ll have to stay away because of his health, my daughter and I love the new kitten so I refuse to give it away am I wrong?

is my air purifier making me sick?

seems like everytime i use it with the ion thingy and all, seems like it makes my asthma worst. is it just a coincidence? and does it release ozone or something. i dont know help!

What is a good air purifier? Had 3 ionic pros and they all died in a year?

I just want to know whats a better, longer lasting purifier I can get. I really liked it and I have asthma so they make it alot easier to breathe but I just don’ t want one that’ll die in a year, especially since the ionic pros were over a 0 a piece. Please give me suggestions. Thank you

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