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Once asthma begins, it establishes a powerful feedback loop that may not even need an allergen to trigger an attack. General irritants such as cigarette smoke and urban smog can cause the already inflamed airways to constrict. "It is my opinion that parents or caregivers who smoke in the presence of a child are guilty of child abuse," says Dr. Allan Luskin of the Rush Medical Center in Illinois. "Smoke not only increases the risk of a child getting asthma in the first place, it makes asthma worse when it is there...
Indoor pollution can play a powerful role in urban settings. Many city dwellers live in damp, humid apartments where cockroaches and mold spores as well as dust mites can trigger allergic responses. Even if these people realize that such conditions are conducive to asthma, they may not be able to change their circumstances...
Scientists, however, are more cautious than the umbrella-carrying public. Even climatologists who believe that global warming may eventually trigger extreme weather variations like the ones we are experiencing say it is too early to prove a direct connection. The outbreak of freakish weather could also have been partly caused by one or more of several large-scale atmospheric events now under way. The main suspects, in descending order of likelihood...
...without medical supervision. One smart bar in San Francisco started serving drinks laced with a potion called DMAE, for dimethylaminoethanol, that has induced severe cramps, diarrhea and chills in some users. Prescription medicines like vasopressin, normally used to prevent dehydration in patients with a rare form of diabetes, can trigger heart attacks in people suffering from coronary-artery disease. Even some of the seemingly harmless amino acids, when given to animals in large doses, have proved dangerous and sometimes deadly...
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