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.