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Marcus, I still got a 404 "not found" error. Do you have any other links that might prove fruitful?

HI

I too have heard about this device called " Insight eNo". The other day i had gone to the hospital for a check up. There was another patient who was using this device. He said he found this device to be helpful. But that's just what he says. I don't know though.

Hey redewenur,

Thanks for your reply. I researched on the devices which is used to measure exhaled nitric oxide and came to know that the device "Insight eNO system" is cleared by the FDA for use in the physician’s office only. Currently, there are no devices in the US approved for home-use to monitor exhaled nitric oxide. Apieron, Inc. a medical device company markets this device(Insight eNO) to doctors offices.

I came across so many articles and excerpts which states that Exhaled Nitric Oxide( eNO) levels are high in untreated asthma. But after anti-inflammatory medications (e.g. inhaled steroids), eNO levels fall rapidly, indicating reduction of airway inflammation.With eNO measurements, physicians can monitor inflammation on a regular basis. By adding accurate eNO measurements to the current ways in which asthma is monitored, physicians can develop a new level of understanding of their patient’s physiology and disease progression.

Hi,

Here is another link on asthma

http://www.find-health-articles.com/rec_...-management.htm

I hope this one works. Sorry again

Got it this time. Thanks for persevering.

Hey Marcus,

Check this link.

http://www.nationaljewish.org/programs/t...tric-oxide.aspx

Hey, Thanks for the link.

I had gone to the hospital the yesterday. I saw this new asthma device in the doctor's room.

Hey Marcus,

Great. How'z the new device? Did you take a look at it? How is it used to monitor asthma?

Hi Nitirc oxide,

The device that i spoke about is a device called Insight eNo. The doctor told me that it is useful to control asthma. The doctor also said that it is FDA Approved.

Hey there,

I came across this link the other day on the internet. It talks about different tests being conducted for diagnosing asthma. I found it to be very useful.

http://princewilliam2.discoveryhospital.com/centers/3.xml

Hey Marcus,

Even I researched on the same and came to know that the device "Insight eNO" has been approved by FDA for use in the physician’s office only. Currently, there are no devices in the US approved for home-use to monitor exhaled nitric oxide.

Check this link. Daily telemonitoring of exhaled nitric oxide and symptoms in the treatment of childhood asthma.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18931330

Thanks marcus,

I had gone to the hospital for a check. My asthma flared up again. I don't what has caused it to flare up. The doctor has taken some tests. Just waiting to see what he says.

The doctor gave me the results of my asthma tests. It turns out that my asthma is caused by some kind of allergy. What allergy causes my asthma to go up is still unknown. That is up to me now to find out what is causing the flare up of my asthma.

Hey Marcus,

According to the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and other organizations, triggers for asthma include the following:

Allergens

* pollen
* mold
* animal protein (dander, urine, oil from skin)
* house dust/dust mites
* cockroaches
* certain foods

Irritants

* strong odors and sprays, such as perfumes, household cleaners, cooking fumes, paints, and varnishes
* chemicals such as coal, chalk dust, or talcum powder
* air pollutants
* changing weather conditions, including changes in temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, and strong winds
* Chemical-exposure on the job, such as occupational vapors, dust, gases, or fumes.

Smoke

*Tobacco smoke, whether directly or passively inhaled, has been shown to worsen asthma.

*Wood smoke from wood-burning heating stoves and fireplaces can release irritating chemicals such as sulfur dioxide.
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Hope it helps you.

When it comes to medical science I write as a layman. However, I have a personal interest in the topic because, my daughter--I tell the full story of her recovery in the NotQuiteScience forum--was diagnosed with a deadly asthma-like lung condition, triggered by allergies, when she was 7.5 yrs. old. She had pneumonia fives times in a row in the winter of 1963/64. "Her lungs are so weak and scarred, one more bout could kill her" the specialists warned." Drugs and anti-allergy needles were of little help.

I also have a granddaughter--now 20 and healthy--who had many serious bouts, and rushes to the hospital, with asthma.

My daughter is now 53, healthy, a vegetarian and living as an artist with her artist husband on a floating house and gardens (they grow all the vegetables they need.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDqbfiejLdM
Her husband eats some fish--available for the catching.)

Oddly enough, What helped both my daughter and grand daughter overcome their conditions was the application of hypnosis. It seems it triggered their immune systems and they got well. After one session, my daughter was never bedridden again. It took a little longer with my granddaughter. Having studied the process, with the approval of the family doctor--who admitted he knew little about it--I did the therapy, which I now call pneumatherapy--the spiritual application of hypnotic technique.

Keep in mind that I am not anti medicine, or anti science, but my experience over the years, and not just with my own family, prompts me to ask:
Have we put too much faith in somatic (physical) therapies?
Are there not good reasons to explore the causes and treatment of psychosomatic diseases--ones caused by stressful circumstances, and/or by the controller type of people outside ourselves?

And what about what I call pneuma-psychosomatic diseases--ones, for whatever reasons, we bring on ourselves?
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A google search on HYPNOSIS AND RELIGION brings up numerous items. Among them:
http://www.durbinhypnosis.com/hypnosisreligion.htm

Dear Revlgking,

I can understand how you must have felt as a parent to see your child in so much pain. But on the other hand it's good to know that she is now healthy. But does hypnosis technique really work? Being an asthmatic patient myself, i have been on medication for quite sometime, and i have found some amount of relief through them.

Hey Revlgking,

Very excited to read your post. I am hearing for the first time that hypnosis technique helps to manage asthma. I am an asthma patient and I have been on several medicines to bring my asthma in control. But great to hear that both your daughter and grand daughter are doing well now after the application of hypnosis.
Can you explain more about this?

Nitric Oxide and Marcus,
Take a look at the following:

Hypnosis and asthma: a critical review.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10724294
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Also, check out:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1912142
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PNEUMATOLOGY
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In my opinion, hypnotic technique--or what I call pneumatherapy--falls under the general category of pneumatology, which preceded and is the mother of psychology. Therefore, it should be recognized for what it is: the science of the human spirit (pneuma).

HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS
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HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS
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The human ability to go in and out of the trance state has been part of our human nature since the dawn of consciousness. The trance phenomenon can be found in all forms of worship and the rituals of religion. Also, great artists and inventors in science have all made, and still make, use of this phenomenon.

The modern word 'hypnosis' was not invented until 1843. The inventor was Dr. James Braid, a Scottish physician and surgeon practicing in Manchester, England, who later admitted that it was actually a misnomer.

He then tried, and failed, to get people to call it "monoideism"--the ability to keep ones mind focused on one idea, as if in a trance.

Because of his interest in science, he coined the word--based on 'hypnos', the Greek for sleep, to get it away from its association with superstition and magic.

I have been a student of hypnosis since the late 1940's when I did some undergraduate studies in psychology.

Because I believe the ability to use and benefit from the trance state is rooted in who we are, spiritually (pneumatologically), I prefer to call what I do 'pneumatherapy'.

The following is good information about what it is, and is not.

http://www.danielolson.com/hypnosis/hypnosis_history.html

Perhaps--if the moderators agree that psychology is a science, and hypnosis/pneumatherapy is a technology--we need a separate thread for this information. I will be glad to help.

Hmmm......

The post looks interesting.