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understand the risks!!!

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I know many people who suffer with asthma, who often fail to manage their condition properly. To be honest for a long time asthma was just an everyday thing in family life. Im not a sufferer myself but many of my family are.

However on 30/11/05 Haveing not suffererd an attack for 6 years, we sadly lost my sister ema to an acute broncial attack. She was 18. Since that day, i often find myself tellng my pals off for not taking proper care of their condition.

Asthma can be a much more serious condition if its not managed properly and i just want every1 to take heed and dont take the condition for granted..

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  • Tessa
    Tessa

    Posted

    Well said stezatois , this happened to my daughters 15 year old friend some years ago. There are people who think, Oh it's just asthma and use their inhalers when they think they need to, not realising that they should maintain a good management regime for their asthma and use the inhalers correctly, the right amount of puffs, the right amount of times.

    I am so sorry to hear about your sister.

    Take care

    Tessa

  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    I'm very sorry to hear about your sister.

    My asthma nurse recently told me that the other issue with not taking preventative medicines regularly is that you can get small amounts lung damage each time the asthma flares up. Over the years this can build up.

    I do wish that someone had told me this at 16.

  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    I totally agree with this, my dad was almost taken from us on 22nd june 2007 with a severe asthma attack which left him in critical care for 3 wks, 3 wks on he has been discharged from hospital and is making good recovery at home.

    But its also the GP's who have to be more on the ball with this, my dad went to his GP on the morning of the 22nd June 2007, with a bad chest, (last time he had an asthma attack was when he was a young boy he is now 51) whilst waiting to be seen, he started having an asthmatic cough, the GP came out and ushered him into the room and put him on a nebulizer,..... WITH OUT LISTENING TO HIS CHEST, 24 hrs l8r in critical care they had said to us, if the gp HAD listened to his chest he would have been admitted to hospital and he wouldnt have been in CCU

    I'm athmatic and this has been a HUGE wake up call for us all.

  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    im sorry to hear about your sister ema. I fully back your post on the risks. im a 21 yr old female i was diagnosed when i was 18, although i'd had the symptoms earlier than that..i find it a real struggle and i think people shrug it off as nothing. i would rather saw off a limb than put up with asthma...its an utterly scary horrible feeling not bein able to breathe properly and i wish others appreciated the importance of prevention and the illness itself like you do..

    unfortunatly i find doctors arent very supportive but maybe thats cos my inhalers do not help but i havent been offered alternitive medicines and had to have the paramedics out a few monhs ago. sad

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