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Make your loom:
1. Cut vertical notches, one inch apart, along the shorter sides of the cardboard, making sure that they are aligned. Each notch should be about one-and-a-half inches deep.
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Prepare your fabric scraps:
1. Start by cutting the fabric into strips about one-and-a-half inches wide. Cut the fabric lengthwise to get the longest strips possible. Be sure to cut off any seams and to trim stray threads.
2. Once you have a few strips of fabric, start knotting them together. An easy and secure way to knot the fabric is to cut a one-inch slit about a half-inch from the end of a strip. Repeat with a second strip. Stick the end of the second strip through the slit in the other strip so that it sticks out about three inches. Now grab the tail of the second strip and pull it through the slit. Pull both pieces of fabric tight to make a knot. Repeat as needed. (You will want two long pieces of fabric, perhaps in contrasting colors, for the warp and the weft.)
Thereâs No âOne Size Fits Allâ Treatment for Asthma
A new set of guidelines recognizes the complexity in the interaction between a patientâs genetics and the environment.
Credit.Gracia Lam
Feb. 15, 2021
Asthma may be a disease with one name. But experts say that unbeknown to most people who have it, it is not just one disease, nor is there a âone-size-fits-allâ treatment for it.
Rather, as detailed in a new 54-page set of guidelines developed by an expert panel, in the 13 years since the last guidelines were issued, tremendous progress has been made in understanding the causes and physiological effects of various kinds of asthma and the different approaches needed to treat them and minimize flare-ups in children and adults. The guidelines were published in December in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.