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Article: Schools Dangerous For Students With Asthma Says Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 10, 2001
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FAIRFAX, Va., Sept. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- America's schools are
danger zones for the nearly 5 million children who have asthma.
Every year, children die of attacks occurring at school -- on the
football field, during fitness testing, in the hallway going to the
school clinic, and in the clinic where no nurse was on duty.
Chalk dust, classroom pets, physical education classes, or poor
indoor air quality trigger miserable and sometimes life-threatening
symptoms. Asthma kills 15 people each day and causes more than 10
million missed school days per year. Yet many schools do not allow
students to carry inhalers and teachers and school officials do not
know how to properly handle asthma ...