A mother has revealed how her baby girl nearly died twice after a pollen allergy triggered life-threatening asthma attacks. Lottie Provis was found blue, lifeless and choking on her own vomit in her cot by her parents Kate, 26, and Steve, 31, when she was 18 months old in May 2015. She was given hours … Read more
Four million children around the world develop asthma each year because of road traffic pollution, a major study has estimated. Exposure to nitrogen dioxide, largely from road transport, is thought to be behind 38,000 new cases in the UK and 240,000 in the US each year. The global research ranked the UK the 29th worst … Read more
Thank goodness for modern medicine! Vintage posters reveal the VERY bizarre cures of days gone by – including the tapeworm diet and asthma cigarettes Bored Panda has shared adverts for bizarre ‘cures’ for ailments including asthma The medical practices were popular at various points throughout history Victorian tapeworm diet promised that you could eat without … Read more