Kathryn My mother-in-law developed Churg–Strauss syndrome (also known as allergic granulomatosis) is a medium and small vessel autoimmune vasculitis, leading to necrosis. It involves mainly the blood vessels of the lungs (it begins as a severe type of asthma), gastrointestinal system, and peripheral nerves, but also affects the heart, skin and kidneys. It is a rare disease that is non-inheritable, non-transmissible. Churg-Strauss syndrome was once considered a type of Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) due to their similar morphologies.
She was on Prednisone and/or cortisone and the doctors told us that this was the cause. She died on the fourth severe attack of this syndrome. No one else had ever survived two and rarely survive the first according to her doctors. It was totally unexpected and she is missed, thank you for your condolences. Dianne From: clay...@skypoint.com To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>FW: asthma -Dianne Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:39:46 -0500 DIED? I am so sorry for your loss. May I ask what medications were responsible? Kathryn On Sep 11, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Dianne France wrote: Gina Our son had very bad when he was little. My mother-in-law died from side effects of asthma medications so we were very concerned. A friend suggested chiropractic care. I had never used a chiropractor and didn't follow up. Our son got worse and her chiropractor was having a "bring a friend free day" and so we went. It was amazing. If he was having problems I could take him and they would stop immediately. I don't know if all forms of asthma respond but to this day if our son now 31 has an attack or is starting to have difficulty breathing he immediately heads to the chiropractor. He also has mild scoliosis and these treatments have helped that also. Dianne > From: vegasmom...@cox.net > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:16:23 -0700 > Subject: CS>FW: asthma, pneumonia > > I had this info at one time, but can not find it now! I would appreciate > someone telling me again how to nebulize CS. I need all the details. How > much CS? How much dilutant? (I'm using DI water.) Any other details that > will help me will be appreciated! > > My daughter (3 years old) is having what seems to be another asthma attack. > It's been several months since her last one (March), which actually ended up > in pneumonia. I am not interested in going to the hospital with her, so I > want to do anything an everything I can to keep her out. If there is some > other treatment that you know of that will help her, I would greatly > appreciate it! > > Thank you! > Gina _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_online:082009
