Why asthma gets deadlier with age

In early June, Donna Bilgore Robins stood on a patio in Beaver Creek, Colorado, under a crystal-clear blue sky and tried to catch her breath.
She couldn’t.
With mountain vistas around her, Robins felt as if she was drowning. She gasped for air hungrily again and again.
Robins knew all too well what was happening. Something — some kind of plant?  something in the mountain air? — had triggered her asthma, a lifelong condition.....

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What's the difference between vocal cord dysfunction and asthma?

Both asthma and vocal cord dysfunction can make breathing difficult. Signs and symptoms of either condition can include coughing, wheezing, throat tightness and hoarseness, but they're two separate disorders.
Vocal cord dysfunction is the abnormal closing of the vocal cords when you breathe in or out. It's also called laryngeal dysfunction, paradoxical vocal cord movement disorder or paradoxical vocal cord motion. Like asthma, vocal cord dysfunction can be triggered by breathing in lung irritants, having an upper respiratory infection or exercising.....

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Thunderstorm Asthma on the Rise
Why? And who is at risk?

For seasonal allergy sufferers, rain is usually thought of as a friend—it washes the pollen out of the air. However, there are circumstances in which a particular type of wet weather event can make things much worse: thunderstorms. Asthma epidemics have occurred under such circumstances and have affected patients who have never exhibited asthmatic symptoms before. The most recent severe episode occurred in Melbourne, Australia, in 2016, with 8500 emergency asthma visits and nine deaths.....

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