Asthma is very common among children, teens and adults. It is a disease that causes the airways of the lungs to tighten.

An asthma attack is when your lungs aren’t getting enough air to breathe. Your child might be having an asthma attack if he or she has:

Trouble breathing
Wheezing
Coughing
Chest pain
Chest tightness.

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I have never even heard of it, and more than 6% of children in the United States have been diagnosed with asthma.
A 75% increase in recent decades. The rate soars to 40% among some populations of urban children....

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