Asthma Awareness
What Is Asthama? Asthama is a disease that affects your lungs. It is one of the most common long-term disesases of children, but adult can have asthama, too. Asthama causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing at night or early in morning. Air pollution and viral lung infection may also lead to asthama. Asthama is a long term problem in the tubes that carry air into your lungs that can make it hard for you to breathe. These airways get so narrow that air can’t move freely. It can cause serious wheezing and breathlessness, known as asthama attacks. There’s no cure, but most people can control their symptoms. And the majority of kids with asthama eventually grow out of it. What causes Asthama No one knows exactly what causes asthma. Asthma tends to run in families and may be inherited, and environmental factors may also play a key role. Scientists continue to explore what causes asthma, but we do know that these factors play an important role in the develop...