Mayo Clinic Study Finds Increased Risk of Pneumococcal Disease in Asthma Patients2

Mayo Clinic research shows adults with asthma are at increased risk of serious pneumococcal disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most common bacteria causing middle ear infections and community acquired pneumonia. It also causes blood stream infections and brain infections. According to the Centers for Disease Control, pneumococcal infection is one of the leading causes of death from a vaccine-preventable disease. The researchers recommend including asthma as an indication for pneumococcal vaccination in adults. The results of the study were recently published in the October edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Young Juhn, M.D., a pediatric and adolescent medicine physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic and lead author of the study discusses the study.

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Perhaps the tendency to shallow breathing is learned from youth to control coughing and not alarm or aggravate the adults.

This leads to susceptible lungs.

Conscious breathing, as well as slow movement with a slow deep breath should be encouraged, as they would not require the rescue of an inhalant of steroids.

Yoga and Thai-Chi are imperative for breath control, and should be encouraged to all asthmatics.