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Salt therapy can dramatically enhance sports performance which can help improve lung function and is believed to increase lung capacity and stamina. If you want to improve your sports performance, visit Mayo’s first salt therapy spa at Diamond’s Car Park, Ballina.

The World Health Organization lists hundreds of conditions that can be treated with acupuncture. Some of the conditions that affect breathing are infections, such as colds and flu, bronchitis, asthma, and eye, ear, nose, throat, and sinus infections. Patients with lung cancer could find acupuncture useful to strengthen their immunity and reduce the side-effects of conventional medicine.

Salt therapy can dramatically enhance sports performance which can help improve lung function and is believed to increase lung capacity and stamina. If you want to improve your sports performance, visit Mayo’s first salt therapy spa at Diamond’s Car Park, Ballina.

The exact cause of asthma is not known. According to the 2002 AIRI report, 470,000 people have asthma in Ireland, meaning approximately one in eight suffer from it. Ireland has the fourth highest prevalence of asthma in the world after Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.

Tackle allergies, respiratory problems, asthma, and more with the Salin Air Purifier, available now from Weirs Pharmacy, Mullingar.

Members of a support group for sufferers of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease will sell badges at various locations in the city on Wednesday November 17 to mark World Pin Badge Day for COPD.

The next meeting of the Mayo COPD Support Group will be held in the Travellers Friend Hotel, Castlebar (opposite Mayo General Hospital), between 3pm and 5pm on Thursday June 24 and all new members are welcome.  The speaker will be from Citizens Information.

The significant increase in the prevalence of asthma is fast becoming a worldwide health issue. The World Health Organisation figures for 2007 estimate that there are currently 300 million asthma sufferers worldwide and mortality rates are also on the rise.

A meeting of the Mayo COPD Support Group will be held in the Traveller’s Friend Hotel, Castlebar, at 4pm on Thursday July 30.

World Health Organisation figures for 2007 estimate there are 300 million asthma sufferers worldwide, and mortality rates are on the rise.