Simon Oliveira said the 34-year-old had been diagnosed with a mild form of the condition as a child. "David has suffered with this since he was a young boy but it has obviously had no effect on his performance," Beckham's agent said. As quoted from uknetguide, Friday (11/25/2009)
Asthma is particularly common among elite sportspeople like Paul Scholes and Paula Radcliffe, who both suffer with the condition, proof that asthma needn’t stop you competing at the highest level.
As well as Beckham's former England and Manchester United team-mate Scholes and marathon runner Radcliffe, cricketer Darren Gough, Chelsea's Frank Lampard, former England rugby international Austin Healey and Team GB swimming star Rebecca Adlington all suffer from forms of asthma.
Based on data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as many as 300 million people worldwide suffering from asthma and 225 thousand people died of asthma in the year 2005. Asthma is a disease that has many causative factor, which is most often due to atopy or allergic factors. The factors that cause and trigger asthma include house dust, fur, cigarette smoke, smoke mosquito coil, and others.
Asthma disease is incurable and drugs are currently only works relieve symptoms. However, with asthma control, asthma sufferers can be free from asthma symptoms that can lead disturbing activities of daily living. And the exercise is one of a trigger for their health condition.
Make this the inspiration for your children who suffered from asthma, that this disease can not stop them to achieve great things such as David Beckham.
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