Doctors around the globe have been noticing an increase in the number of patients diagnosed with nonallergenic asthma. As many as half of the people in the U.S. that are diagnosed with the lung disease have this strain, causing concern and questions among medical professionals. Especially because some of the treatments and medications that are used for the allergenic asthma strain are not as effective on the nonallergenic version.
What seems to be the tricky part about nonallergenic asthma is that it does not involve an immune system response to environmental or edible triggers to symptoms. With the population of asthma sufferers growing at rapid rates, and the number of children being diagnosed with the disease increasing, the desire to understand the effects and the best ways to treat the disease is becoming more prevalent.
For this reason, scientists have been running experiments to determine what lifestyles are most impacted by asthma, and why that might be. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Stefan Worgall, chief of the pediatric pulmonology, allergy and immunology division at Weill Cornell Medical College, and his colleagues recently discovered that when a normally occurring type of fat, known as sphingolipids, isn't embedded properly in the cell walls in the lungs of mice, the airways constrict."
This connection could also help doctors understand why obesity and asthma have seemingly been linked over the years.
Knowing how to deal with these increasingly difficult diseases, and the best ways to treat and prevent them will only help you live a fuller life. For more information on the evolving state of asthma, follow along with this blog. If you are interested in learning about our asthma or allergy control products, contact Allergy Be Gone today.
