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What is Asthma?
Asthma is a chronic or long-term disease of the airways, which are the tubes that carry air into our lungs. Asthma causes swelling in our airways and makes the tubes you breathe through get smaller, making breathing difficult.
The good news is that asthma can be treated and well-controlled and doesn't have to interfere with your or your child's daily life.
- Empower Your Lungs: The Role of Vaccines in Respiratory Health, Asthma Canada Webinar, November 12, 2024
- How to talk to your child about vaping, (Canadian Lung Association)
- RxHelp Card programs allow patients to benefit from payment assistance with their medication.
- Asthma in Children: Booklet written by Dr. Tom Kozesi, Pediatric Respirologist, (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario)
- Study suggests Vaping increases the risk of asthma in adolescents, (News Medical)
- Study reports asthma rates rise in Alberta, but medication use flat-lines, (University of Alberta)
- Circle of Care: Taking Control of Asthma – A Guide for Patients (AstraZeneca)
- Children with asthma at risk of anxiety, (University of Queensland Australia)
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