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Like thousands of Canadians, Andrea Kenney has a tough time enjoying the fall season. This is when certain allergens like ragweed are at their highest levels, causing her hayfever and consequently her asthma to really flair up.
Andrea Kenney: I stick to the indoors where there is air conditioning and if I don't do that, if I go outside, I will pay a price with symptoms I will feel tired and sleepy, I will end coughing in the middle of the night and I just think people need to know that allergies are not just the simple nuisance. They really affect your quality of light particularly if you also have asthma.
Sherri Dmyterko: It's estimated that allergic rhinitis affects 20 to 25% of Canadians and up to 75% of people with asthma and if it's poorly managed can increase the likelihood of experiencing an asthma attack, but now Health Canada has approved the use of Singulair or montelukast sodium. For the treatment of symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis or heyfever. A convenient once a day non-steroidal tablet Singular is the first and only oral asthma medication to treat symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis.
Doctor Charles Chan is a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and a respirologist and head of the division of respirology at the University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario.
Charles Chan: Allergic rhinitis and asthma have something very common affected by the same inflammatory cell chemical mediator and so by using therapeutic agents such Leukotriene antagonist or Singulair which is taken by mouth and it can penetrate into the nose as well as Bronchial tree equally as well. We have been able to show that you can actually treat allergic rhinitis as well as the asthma at the same time.
Sherri Dmyterko: When it comes to have allergic rhinitis impacts asthma, a recent sms survey among allergic rhinitis and asthma sufferers indicates that 25% of respondents have more asthma attacks and 35% turned to higher doses of medication to control their asthma. These survey results indicate that for many Canadians their allergic rhinitis are seen consequently their asthma is not under control.
For more information about the link between seasonal allergic rhinitis also called hayfever and asthma speak with your doctor; Sherri Dmyterko reporting.
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