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Health & Fitness > Asthma Learning your child has asthma

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For a parent, there can be few things more distressing than to see your child in the grip of a severe asthma attack. When your physician has confirmed that your child is indeed asthmatic, then you must attempt to educate yourself in all aspects of this disease, which is one of the most chronic diseases of childhood.

An attack occurs when the airways of the respiratory tract become narrowed as a result of inflammation. Such narrowing leads to breathing difficulties and the noisy wheezing associated with an asthma attack. Children have naturally smaller airways and when they experience bre...

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