Asthma Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous asthma groups:

Asthma

• Description and content: "All of you who suffer from Asthma "

Asthma - Helping you help yourself

• Description and content: "This group aims to provide a free, reliable resource through which all your questions regarding Asthma can be answered. We will keep you in touch with all things asthma, from events to current research, aswell as providing a place for asthmatics alike to interact and help one another."

Asthma Allies

• Description and content: "Asthma Allies is a non-profit asthma education organization with the mission to improve the quality of life for individuals with asthma. This is accomplished by raising awareness about asthma, providing evidence-based asthma education, addressing disparity and access issues and encouraging asthma self-management through a team approach."

Asthma Support Group

• Description and content: "A place where people with/or carers of someone with asthma can swap hints and tips and make new friends."

Children & Asthma

• Description and content: "This group for anyone to join to talk about their children and asthma. This is such a terrible thing for anyone to have, especially children."

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About.com Asthma Forum

• Description: "About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors."
• Quality: About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.

allergychannel

• Description: "Developed and monitored by board-certified physicians, allergychannel provides comprehensive, trustworthy information about allergies, such as animal allergies and drug allergies, and allergic conditions, such as hay fever, asthma, and dermatitis (eczema)."
• Quality: allergychannel is a medical information website of Healthcommunities.com, Inc.

Daily Strength - Asthma Forum

• Description: "Discuss Asthma with others who understand what you're going through."
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

eHealthForum - Asthma Forums

• Description: "Welcome to the Asthma Forum - a health community featuring member and doctor discussions ranging from a specific symptom to related conditions, treatment options, medication, side effects, diet, and emotional issues surrounding medical conditions."
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

Healia - Asthma Community

• Description: "Through this Asthma support group, you can get Asthma information, share experiences about Asthma, connect with peers, and get answers to your Asthma questions from health professionals."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

HealingWell - Allergy & Asthma Community Forum

• Description: "HealingWell.com is a thriving social network and support community for patients, caregivers, and families coping with the daily struggles of diseases, disorders and chronic illness."
• Quality: Health content is contributed by reputable health organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, Mediwire and e-HealthSource.

MDJunction - Asthma Community

• Description: "A community of patients, family members and friends dedicated to dealing with Asthma, together."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

MedHelp - Asthma Community

• Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 5.5 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 14 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Netdoctor - Asthma Forum

• Description: "We want to break down the "medical language barrier" between the doctor and the patient. Critical medical information must be presented in a clear and understandable language so that the patient fully understands his or her choices and decisions. Ultimately, it is the patient who must make the critical health choices."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.