What is Asthma?

  • Asthma is a chronic disease. That means asthma will never completely go away and you could have it for the rest of your life.
  • There is no cure for asthma. There is no medication or home remedy that will make asthma go away forever.
  • Asthma is a disease of the lungs. When people have asthma their lungs don’t work as they should.
  • Asthma causes people to have trouble breathing. People with asthma cough or have noisy breathing (wheezing).
  • When this breathing trouble lasts a few minutes it is called an asthma attack.
  • Asthma does not cause people to have asthma attacks all the time. In between the times when you have asthma attacks you can feel fine.
  • If asthma is not properly controlled, a bad asthma attack can kill!
  • The good news is that asthma can be controlled by
    • taking medication everyday
    • learning how to avoid the things that bring on asthma attacks.

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  • Last updated February 9th, 2012
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