childhood asthma
Young lungs' struggle
Childhood asthma is asthma that develops in children, typically before age five.
It's the most common chronic illness in children, causing recurring episodes of wheezing, coughing, and difficulty breathing.
Many children outgrow it by adolescence, though some carry it into adulthood: His childhood asthma returned in his forties.
- wheezeWhistling labored breath
- can't breatheUnable to inhale
- inhalerPortable respiratory medication device
- breathlessLacking air, gasping
- pufferFish that expands when threatened
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- asthma types
- asthmainhaler, wheeze, wheezing, airways, bronchodilator
- immunologyimmune system, immune response, antibodies, antigens, immunity