Guidelines Are Issued on Asthma and Youths

Good idea I won’t mention it to her. Its good there was this topic tonight as I have to call the dr & get her a new note & a inhaler for school. I still am fuming she isn’t allowed to carry hers on the bus. I worry like crazy about an attack on the bus. If she hadn’t begged to go back to school I would have been much happier. First sign of any of the gay bs or sickness she is being homeschooled.

My school district INSISTED that she go to preschool for disabled students. She got sick every single time she went. Finally I got a MD note to excuse her due to her impoverished immune system. Although she was much more disabled than your child, I found that the school MUST accommodate her with the MD note. So, if she gets sick, talk to your doctor. The school will have to send a teacher out to help her if it’s found that the school, in fact, is dangerous to her health. There are programs to help if it’s found her immune system is compromised.

Thanks for the advice. I wanted to homeschool & we did all summer. But when we talked to her about it she said please let me go to school... I love going. So we are . My oldest daughter(now 28 yrs old) had a tutor for almost a year when she got sick so I know it can be done. Its strange but since she got off those 2 drugs she has been so much better. She had an allergy med for the beginning of the summer but the dr took her off it when the pollen season was over & we had no problems. I honestly felt her old dr was turning her into a mini drug addict. Both the drs in that office made me feel like I was a bad mother. In fact the woman dr hinted on calling social services on me if I took her off the drugs. She never came out & said it directly but she sure scared me enough into getting a new dr asap. Time for bed for me...Sassy gets up early. It was good to meet you & I hope to see you again ..~Pandora~

A friend of my daughter is doing her residency. Several welfare patients have tried to get her to say they or their kid has asthma even though they don’t. Why? They can have air-conditioning installed and it becomes a medical expense paid for by us.

She ran these cases past the doctors and they said, “Oh, go ahead and give it to them.”

Great system.

Not saying all asthma patients are faking it, but there are probably a lot of happy, cool scammers out there as the word of this great benefit gets around very quickly.

Your theory may be very close to what I believe to be the correct one. ;) Lack of exposure to various elements in fresh air.

Until fairly recently, children were exposed immediately at birth to fresh air (OMG!), which includes all kinds of things. Beginning in the late seventies, hospitals began to close up their windows. I remember fighting with staff when my son was born. I wanted the window open. They kept closing it. They gave me a humidifier which made the stuffy room worse.

I’m not big on a/c either. I think it causes health problems for children and adults. Homes and businesses are becoming more air-tight and more of them use a/c. More and more people are spending their days inside in more sterile environments - places that are professionally cleaned on a daily basis. No fresh air, no dirt, but plenty of germs from other people.

Since the mid-to-late eighties, kids have been plopped in daycare/preschool where they spend most of their time in an enclosed environment (no open windows). School windows are no longer opened. Mom heads off to her job which is in an enclosed environment (no open windows). Then she picks her kids up and they head home to an enclosed environment. Mom gets pregnant in an enclosed environment and spends the bulk of her pregnancy in an enclosed environment.

No exposure to allergens leads to lack of build up of tolerance to those allergens.

Wanna do one on the obesity problem now?

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