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Readers Respond: What Are Your Asthma Triggers?
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All sorts of things can trigger your asthma. We may all be able to learn a lot more about our asthma if we know what triggers each others asthma. What Triggers Your Asthma

What I've noticed about my Asthma

I currently use Symbicort (combo inhaler) and lately it seems to not be working well. It is the changing of seasons here also (as someone else posted), but I also have a allergy (+3 on a scale of 1-4) to wheat AND yeast. Some days I am fine and don't really think food has much to do with it. I watch my intake of those foods most days, but the wheezing just seems to come on heavy for no particular reason out of the blue. I also live in Chicago and it is very windy at times with very cold air to breathe. I do notice that the hot summer days are best and that humid days do seem to make matters worse. Exercise does help me also when I'm feeling well enough to really get a good workout going.
—Guest Jeff

robbie

Everything,all scent and perfumes cigarette smoke exhaust fumes flowers chemicals etc
—Guest Robbie

asthma triggers

HUMIDITY..... it kills me everytime, also in Chicago we have wind like no where else and that bone chilling cold sub zero stuff.
—Guest wendy

triggers

peanuts,dairy products because it builds up mucus around your lungs,change of weather,alcohal beverages triggers it and too much weight
—Guest carla austin

Food Allergy Induced Asthma?

Mostly seems like food allergies but I can't seem to place it on exactly what food. Sometimes other things.
—Guest YoungAdult

asthma triggers

All the listed triggers, cold and stress at work. I thought that I had stress under control especially at work, but a new job assignment caused lung constriction for about three weeks until I really relaxed.
—Guest Glenda

Season changes seem to do it

It does not seem to be pollens so much, as the change of *any* season. That sometimes interminable time when one season is trying to become the next. Right now, it is neither Winter nor Spring, and I'm sick as can be.
—acter

Pollens

As the spring weather warms up the pollens in my neighborhood cause watery, itchy eyes, and I see my peak flows decreasing.
—Guest Guest

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