by Jessica Schuman | Jan 12, 2023 | Asthma, COPD, Education, Managing Lung Disease, The Lungs, Uncategorized
People with chronic lung disease may find exercise makes them short of breath, so they tend to avoid it. Exercise training can result in improvement in your quality of life, exercise capacity, and respiratory muscle strength. Some hospitals offer rehabilitation...
by Jessica Schuman | Jan 11, 2023 | Asthma, COPD, Education, Managing Lung Disease, The Lungs, Uncategorized
People with chronic lung disease may find exercise makes them short of breath, so they tend to avoid it. Exercise training can result in improvement in your quality of life, exercise capacity, and respiratory muscle strength. Some hospitals offer rehabilitation...
by Jeannie Simms BA, AE-C | Jan 11, 2023 | Asthma, The Lungs, Uncategorized
Being proactive and adequately managing your asthma can help reduce the impact of Covid-19 on your health. However, COVID-19 can affect your respiratory system and trigger an asthma exacerbation. Adequately manage your asthma by the following: Talking to your...
by Jeannie Simms BA, AE-C | Jul 28, 2022 | Asthma
Breathe Pennsylvania provides pediatric asthma education, support, and resources through their Certified Asthma Educators. My name is Jeannie Simms, AE-C, and recently a question came in regarding how a teacher could support her students with asthma in the classroom....
by Jeannie Simms BA, AE-C | Apr 27, 2022 | Asthma, Uncategorized
Your last year of high school is probably a mixture of joy, anticipation, and even a little anxiety for both your parents/caregiver and you. By the end of this final school year, you will have been supported for twelve years, to some degree, on how to manage your...
by Carla Conrad | Nov 10, 2021 | Asthma, COPD, The Lungs, Uncategorized
World Pneumonia Day is commemorated every year on November 12th to raise awareness of pneumonia, an infectious lung disease. According to the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), “Pneumonia is the single biggest infectious killer of adults and children – claiming the...
