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infobox image caption grammar

The infobox pic has featured goofy grammar since Produde29499's june 27 edit (almost a month as of writing!). I'd fix this but I'm unregistered and the article is semi-protected. "This is an image of an asthmatics airways, it become swollen and full of mucous." 73.132.7.56 (talk) 18:39, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ephedrine

Shouldn't ephedrine be mentioned? Paul Magnussen (talk) 18:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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From Environmental section, Change:

"Exposure to indoor volatile organic compounds may be a trigger for asthma; formaldehyde exposure, for example, has a positive association.[50] Phthalates in certain types of PVC are associated with asthma in both children and adults.[51][52] While exposure to pesticides is linked to the development of asthma, a cause and effect relationship has yet to be established.[53][54] A meta-analysis concluded gas stoves are a major risk factor for asthma, finding around one in eight cases in the U.S. could be attributed to these.[55]"

by adding this at the end:

"Indoor houseplants improve air quality by reducing levels of formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide."^[1]^[2] Surftacular (talk) 21:56, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is not true. Indoor houseplants do not substantially affect indoor air quality. https://www.lung.org/blog/houseplants-dont-clean-air Jaredroach (talk) 22:44, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjshs1/78/4/78_4_456/_article/-char/ja/

[2] ttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4258716/#b23-eht-29-e2014014

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+== infobox image caption grammar ==
-== Editing Request ==
+The infobox pic has featured goofy grammar since Produde29499's june 27 edit (almost a month as of writing!). I'd fix this but I'm unregistered and the article is semi-protected. "This is an image of an asthmatics airways, it become swollen and full of mucous." [[Special:Contributions/73.132.7.56|73.132.7.56]] ([[User talk:73.132.7.56|talk]]) 18:39, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
-The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
-Institute (NHLBI) recommends that asthma treatment incorporates various methods, such as asthma monitoring, patient and family education, the removal of environmental triggers, and/or the use of long-term and quick-relief medication.
+== Ephedrine ==
-<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Anise |first1=Ayodola |last2=Hasnain-Wynia |first2=Romana |title=Patient-centered outcomes research to improve asthma outcomes |journal=Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology |date=December 2016 |volume=138 |issue=6 |pages=1503–1510 |doi=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2016.10.003}}</ref>
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+Shouldn't ephedrine be mentioned? [[User:Paul Magnussen|Paul Magnussen]] ([[User talk:Paul Magnussen|talk]]) 18:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
-== Help me edit the introductory section to Asthma ==
+== Semi-protected edit request on 13 November 2024 ==
-This statement appears in the top section of the Asthma page:
+{{edit semi-protected|Asthma|answered=yes}}
-"There is no known cure for asthma, but it is easily treatable.[3]"
+From Environmental section, Change:
+"Exposure to indoor volatile organic compounds may be a trigger for asthma; formaldehyde exposure, for example, has a positive association.[50] Phthalates in certain types of PVC are associated with asthma in both children and adults.[51][52] While exposure to pesticides is linked to the development of asthma, a cause and effect relationship has yet to be established.[53][54] A meta-analysis concluded gas stoves are a major risk factor for asthma, finding around one in eight cases in the U.S. could be attributed to these.[55]"
-I could not find a way to edit it myself, hence I am requesting you to consider an edit I cannot make. The phrase - "easily treatable" - is technically correct but misleading. It is true that asthma is treatable, and most of the treatments are "easy" unless one acknowledges that many people have trouble with inhaler technique. However, the statement implies that asthma treatment is also universally effective and this is far from the case. Later in the page I added information to illustrate this.
+by adding this at the end:
-It turns out there is evidence for a known cure for some forms of asthma, which I will address on the 'Chlamydia pneumoniae' page. However, this topic is still very controversial so I am not dealing with it directly on the asthma page, except to explain why I suggest altering the statement to read:
+"Indoor houseplants improve air quality by reducing levels of formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide."<ref>https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjshs1/78/4/78_4_456/_article/-char/ja/</ref><ref>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4258716/#b23-eht-29-e2014014</ref> [[User:Surftacular|Surftacular]] ([[User talk:Surftacular|talk]]) 21:56, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
-"The current consensus is that there is no known cure for asthma, and many efficacious treatments are available that have variable effectiveness."
+:This is not true. Indoor houseplants do not substantially affect indoor air quality. https://www.lung.org/blog/houseplants-dont-clean-air [[User:Jaredroach|Jaredroach]] ([[User talk:Jaredroach|talk]]) 22:44, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
-==Disparities==
-The Guardian recently published an article about gender disparities in asthma attacks and deaths in the UK. There are also significant differences in childhood asthma rates in, for example, New York due to segregated neighborhoods disproportionately affected by pollution. I think this is a pertinent topic to add to the page and was wondering if anyone has a suggestion for what information to include, where to put it (Type 2 Diabetes has an 'epidemiology' section), etc. If there are no comments on this I will probably put it towards the bottom of the article and include pertinent links to other disparities in medicine/medical research. Thanks! [[User:Kazamzam|Kazamzam]] ([[User talk:Kazamzam|talk]]) 04:39, 2 May 2022 (UTC)