ASTHMA
What is Asthma?
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What is Asthma?
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lungs, characterised by wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and cough, which is estimated to affect more than 100 million people worldwide.
Asthma affects people of all ages, backgrounds, and geographic locations. Although each person it affects may have different symptoms, the effects are generally debilitating. It is sometimes a severe and potentially fatal disease, to which no country is immune.
Despite efforts to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with asthma, the disease appears to be on the rise, especially among children. Asthma is a serious condition that may have a significant impact on a person's quality of life, and may result in asthma-related absences from school or work, as well as unscheduled visits to the physician or hospital.
Although there is no Conventional Medical cure for asthma, it is a disease that has been treated successfully by the effective use of a number of Complementary Medical therapies, and practitioners of the following therapies report success in the treatment of asthma:
From a patient's point-of-view, in those cases where the disease cannot be totally ameliorated, it can be managed, enabling most people to lead productive and active lives.
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