Living Healthy

Welcome to Mountain West Healthcare's new Healthy Living blog. This blog will provide tips on maintaining a healthy lifestyle while dealing with health concerns. The first topic we are going to cover is asthma. The first blog post will focus on avoiding asthma triggers.   Asthma is a common non-communicable disease. It can affect children and adults, although it is most common in children. Asthma can be triggered by many different things. Learning what your triggers are and how to avoid them can be an essential part of controlling your asthma.  According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America's article  Asthma Triggers , " If you have asthma, it is important to keep track of the causes or triggers that you know make your asthma worse. Because the symptoms do not always occur right after exposure, this may take a bit of detective work. Delayed asthma episodes may occur depending on the type of trigger and how sensitive a person is to it." Many different thing...