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Article: The trick is to ... keep breathing; To mark National Asthma Week, which focuses on young people this year, we explore the truth about the condition to help YOU and your friends understand asthma better.(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- October 8, 1997
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Chances are you, or someone you know, has asthma.
One in five young people who responded to the National Asthma Campaign's MORI survey said they had asthma.
So even if you don't have it yourself, it's useful to know about asthma and its treatments.
Asthma is an inflammation of the airways where the tubes are red, swollen and twitchy and tend to go into spasm. When this happens, people with asthma wheeze, cough and get breathless.
If you think you might have asthma and have not seen your doctor, you should make an appointment so that your ...