Is the city bad for kids with asthma? Or is a week vacationing in the Italian countryside simply good for everyone? (Or both?!) You decide, after reading the article below. ParentZing! wants to share many types of information with our readers; not just the nuggets that support our theme of “urban. style. parenting.” (Ok, well…99% of the time we post things that overtly support our mission and love for all things city. But at least we’re honest about it!)
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Mild Asthma Symptoms Fall After Just a Week Away, Study Finds
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Posted March 2, 2009
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) — After a week away from urban air pollution, children with mild persistent asthma begin to show dramatic changes in their respiratory health.A study in the March issue of Pediatrics reports that just seven days after a group of school-age children left the city for a rural area, airway inflammation went down and lung function increased.
“I was quite surprised by our findings,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Giovanni Piedimonte, professor and chairman of the pediatrics department at the West Virginia School of Medicine. “I thought we would see a difference, but I didn’t think we’d have such statistically significant changes. What I was particularly surprised by was that the most statistically significant change was in pulmonary function. Virtually every single child more or less increased pulmonary function.”
