Asthma Poll- Does Weather Affect Your Asthma

My asthma begins each fall when the windows close. I am a teacher and am exposed and catch the back to school cold. I have CVA so severe is the coughing that I cannot speak, eat or sleep. I have always ended up on predinzone for average of 2 weeks to bring me back to normal. Then I catch the next cold. Coughing is also triggered by dust mold and any form of smoke. This all began when I turned 50 and this is my 6 winter in this cycle that lasts from fall to spring when the windows open again.

Does anyone know of a better treatment or is anyone studying the role hormones play in this.

You are not catching a cold, you are having an allergy related sickness. I was not effected until I was 40. My coughing was so severe, that it was hard for me to teach. I had a cat scan and I had a sinus infection. To get rid of it I went on 750 mg of leviquin for two weeks. Other antibiotics did not work, and most certainly not on the normal 5 or 10 days of taking an antibiotic. I now go to an allergist, and have been tested. I have food allergies, pollen allergies, and my most life threatening allergy is mold. As teachers we work in buildings that have mold spores , no air conditioning, and bad air quality due to lack of correct ventilation systems. I feel your pain.