10-15 per cent kids have some kind of asthma symptoms

Chennai: Asthma is often misdiagnosed in children and they undergo wrong treatment. It is either diagnosed as primary complex or mild infection of tuberculosis, or the shadows on chest X-ray are mistaken for pneumonia, said Dr R. Sridharan, consultant pediatrician, Asthma and Allergy Resource Centre, on the eve of World Asthma Day. The first Tuesday of May is observed as World Asthma Day.....

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Parents urged to have asthma plan for children

Parents of children with asthma have been found wanting when it comes to managing the condition, evidenced by the almost one in eight who had to bring their child to the emergency department last year.....

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Asthma Leading Cause of School Absences in Ector County

ODESSA- When you think of the leading cause of kids missing school, the flu or stomach bug might come to mind. However, according to Texas Tech University Health Science Center of the Permian Basin, asthma is what's keeping students away from the classroom the most in Ector County.....

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