EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson

    Protecting Our Kids from Asthma

    Posted May 16th, 2011 by EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson

    This month is National Asthma Awareness Month, when we address an illness that affects nearly 25 million Americans and one in every ten children in the United States.

    Safeguarding the air we breathe and preventing illnesses like asthma attacks is one of my most important jobs as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But it is important to me for other reasons as well – before I am Administrator, or an environmentalist, I am a mother of two teenage sons whose health, happiness and future are my and my husband’s top concerns. Over the years, my youngest son has struggled with asthma, giving my work for clean air an added urgency.

    In some cases, raising a child with asthma means startling awake at night because of the lightest sound of a cough. In other cases, it means family trips with a nebulizer, breathing masks and asthma medication. But in every case, it means taking special care to monitor the environmental conditions that might trigger an attack.

    National Asthma Awareness Month is an important opportunity to raise awareness about those triggers and ensure that everyone has the knowledge they need to help control asthma. The EPA has assembled a number of great resources on our website, www.epa.gov/asthma. I’ve also recorded a short video about Asthma Awareness Month. I hope you’ll watch it, share it, and help us get the word out about asthma awareness.

    This National Asthma Awareness Month, we need your help to make sure everyone knows what they can do to help prevent and protect against asthma.

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    October 17, 2011 at 10:00 pm by Asthma

    This is a very resourceful blog. I find so many interesting articles about asthma and how to help it. I will visit again this blog for more tips on how to protect my kids from asthma.

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    May 19, 2011 at 12:09 pm by Sinisa Janicijevic

    It`s a pretty good blog.Asthma is among the fastest increasing medical issue in most developed countries throughout the ’50s and ’60s. Asthma affects hundreds of millions of individuals around the world. It could be activated almost by everything. So raising awareness of asthma is vital to prevent or deal with asthma attack.

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    May 17, 2011 at 9:21 pm by Alexandra

    My third child has asthma. I think she got it because her dad got a diesel car, and she breathed in the fumes. My other two children, older, growing up when we had a regular car, do not have asthma. We need to pay more attention to the world we live in and recognize that synthetic chemicals, in food, water, and air, are not good for people. They produce disease. I just read a book called Pollution, which explains how the chemical industry has systematically dodged regulation over the past 50 years or more. Now Senator Frank Lautenberg has proposed the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. It is REALLY IMPORTANT that all the moms out there support this effort and ask their own senators to co-sponsor this bill. The chemical industry will do its best to oppose regulation. We must not let them succeed!

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    May 16, 2011 at 5:14 pm by Teri

    Hi,
    I loved your blog on Asthma. I know asthma has increased so much in the last 10-15 years. My brothers and mother have asthma. I am so thankful that I do not suffer from it, but I also make sure I keep all the toxic chemicals out of my home that have been linked to asthma, as well as so many other health problems. I get my household products from a company that manufactures only “green”, non-toxic products that I can use in my home and the best part is they are more economical than the toxic products in the grocery and department stores. They save me money and they work as well, if not better than the bad ones. I do not have to wear a gas mask to clean my bathroom.

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