Let asthma not stop your child from leading a normal life

There’s no need to worry if your child has asthma. It’s easily managed.

You can’t have missed all the scary facts and figures on Delhi’s pollution levels. If a child in your family has asthma, this seems truly scary. You’re worried about your child’s breathing difficulties, the medicines he or she has to take every day.

You worry about the side effects of those medicines. You worry when your child displays symptoms that mean she or he cannot go to school. You worry about acute asthma attacks. That’s because asthma is not merely a disease, it’s also about emotions.

But asthma in children is easily controlled, so your child can lead a normal life. My advice to parents of children with asthma:

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