I was born in the mid fifties and had severe childhood asthma. I had many nighttime drives with my parents to the ER and there received adrenalin and hydroxyzine then sent out to recuperate at home. It was pure hell for all of us. My poor parents had to get neighbors to watch my younger brothers and sister while they drove me to hospital, probably wondering if I would survive.
I don't know how anyone could fake an asthma attack.
There were no prescription treatments at home other than hydroxyzine. I remember having horrible restless leg from the meds. But sometime in the mid sixties, Marax came on the market. It was a theophylline tablet... The active caffeine in tea. And it worked pretty well for me. The inhalers didn't come, at least to my neighborhood, till at least the late 70s and maybe 80s.
What makes me sad for my parents is the utterly stupid theory that it was neglectful parenting that caused my respiratory "cry for affection". What a load of horse dump! The truth seems to be I had a terrible cat allergy and no one connected the dots.
It’s likely that DM was advised by his editor that he should include something Freudian in his book to make it more marketable because psychology was one of the “hip” topics of that time, much as anthropogenic climate change is now.
My son (born today in 1996) had asthma starting from birth, although ped docs called it reactive airway disorder (never mentioned anything about possible asthma) and gave me some kind of liquid (Albuterol?) to give him of orallly. They didn't prepare me for when he became severely agitated and twitchy from it for hours 😡. I had no idea what we were dealing with and no Internet to Google it🤔. He was sick a lot with this plus croup and, stuffy nose, eat infections. At age 2 he was having difficulty breathing, neighbor took a look at his through area and said that it looked like asthma. *** I don't know how parents and docs could watch a kid going through that and say "oh he's seeking attention‼️" It was excruciating to watch, I could hardly breath as I watched him. We gave him nebulized Albuterol. He was diagnosed with asthma and we continued to use nebulizer treatment often then hand-held inhalers when he got old enough. Fortunately, starting in middle school we had him tested for allergies, he was put on weekly allergy shots for years. About end of high school, he stopped having the issues and is no longer being treated for asthma or allergies thankfully!
Great perspective as always Dr Gaty! Berenson's latest bombshell mined from data on kids to teens is downright frightening, and to see you embed it here you must consider the Taiwanese study to have merit
- parent to a young child with allergies, eczema, rhinitis and (luckily it's mild as to be borderline nothing) asthma
Oh my word, a friend of mine who has a son with asthma recently read this chapter of the book. Her takeaway was that in her experience the asthma attacks do occur AT NIGHT.
Which leads me to ask…any thoughts on the whole Breathe phenomenon asserting that several health problems — including asthma — can be addressed by changing from mouth breathing to nose breathing? Hubby and I just listened to Levett’s long “People I mostly admire” podcast with the author of Breathe.
I became aware of the whole nose breathing-nitric oxide connection from reading Dr Malcolm Kendrick’s The Clot Thickens after my emergency bypass earlier this year. I may be joining the mouth tape fad soon!
I was born in the mid fifties and had severe childhood asthma. I had many nighttime drives with my parents to the ER and there received adrenalin and hydroxyzine then sent out to recuperate at home. It was pure hell for all of us. My poor parents had to get neighbors to watch my younger brothers and sister while they drove me to hospital, probably wondering if I would survive.
I don't know how anyone could fake an asthma attack.
There were no prescription treatments at home other than hydroxyzine. I remember having horrible restless leg from the meds. But sometime in the mid sixties, Marax came on the market. It was a theophylline tablet... The active caffeine in tea. And it worked pretty well for me. The inhalers didn't come, at least to my neighborhood, till at least the late 70s and maybe 80s.
What makes me sad for my parents is the utterly stupid theory that it was neglectful parenting that caused my respiratory "cry for affection". What a load of horse dump! The truth seems to be I had a terrible cat allergy and no one connected the dots.
It’s likely that DM was advised by his editor that he should include something Freudian in his book to make it more marketable because psychology was one of the “hip” topics of that time, much as anthropogenic climate change is now.
I think there’s something to that. See also “non-conforming” characters in children’s literature.
My son (born today in 1996) had asthma starting from birth, although ped docs called it reactive airway disorder (never mentioned anything about possible asthma) and gave me some kind of liquid (Albuterol?) to give him of orallly. They didn't prepare me for when he became severely agitated and twitchy from it for hours 😡. I had no idea what we were dealing with and no Internet to Google it🤔. He was sick a lot with this plus croup and, stuffy nose, eat infections. At age 2 he was having difficulty breathing, neighbor took a look at his through area and said that it looked like asthma. *** I don't know how parents and docs could watch a kid going through that and say "oh he's seeking attention‼️" It was excruciating to watch, I could hardly breath as I watched him. We gave him nebulized Albuterol. He was diagnosed with asthma and we continued to use nebulizer treatment often then hand-held inhalers when he got old enough. Fortunately, starting in middle school we had him tested for allergies, he was put on weekly allergy shots for years. About end of high school, he stopped having the issues and is no longer being treated for asthma or allergies thankfully!
Feline asthma was identified in 1906. One would think that might have indicated a physiological condition as opposed to a psychosomatic one.
That was great and loved the sly humor. It's needed more than ever to try and cope with the mass hypnosis running rampant.
Great perspective as always Dr Gaty! Berenson's latest bombshell mined from data on kids to teens is downright frightening, and to see you embed it here you must consider the Taiwanese study to have merit
- parent to a young child with allergies, eczema, rhinitis and (luckily it's mild as to be borderline nothing) asthma
Oh my word, a friend of mine who has a son with asthma recently read this chapter of the book. Her takeaway was that in her experience the asthma attacks do occur AT NIGHT.
Which leads me to ask…any thoughts on the whole Breathe phenomenon asserting that several health problems — including asthma — can be addressed by changing from mouth breathing to nose breathing? Hubby and I just listened to Levett’s long “People I mostly admire” podcast with the author of Breathe.
I became aware of the whole nose breathing-nitric oxide connection from reading Dr Malcolm Kendrick’s The Clot Thickens after my emergency bypass earlier this year. I may be joining the mouth tape fad soon!
Being an asthmatic, I can say it never helped me.
Very interesting, and the link to the history of inhaled medications was most illuminating.
Excellent read Sir! Thank you 👍🏻🤓
Great Post!
Pomposity is annoying, and today is dangerous because of society's reliance on the "Expertocracy" running the show.
I disagree with your subtitle (unless you were being ironic)
"Or: The Only Way to Trust the Science is to Forget the History" because we (society in general) persist in repeating bad stuff.
I use 'stuff' because my reply with specifics would eclipse the length of a McCullough novel.
It must be All In My Head.
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What a story. Your Oedipus caption was priceless :)