Summer Fun Okay for Asthma Suffers Too
Date Added: 06-05-2008
Careful management of asthma can make outdoor play, summer camp and life in general a lot better for kids with asthmatic conditions.
SheKnows.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Sarah W. Caron
For many kids, summer vacation can be like one long recess, with games of tag, hiking and bicycling. But for the nine million children under the age of 18 who’ve been diagnosed with asthma, that summer fun is punctuated with the need for inhalers and preventative treatments. It can also mean days spent indoors to avoid poor air quality. Fortunately, there are some summer camps devoted to their special medical needs.
In the 1980s, asthma was a little known thing. So, when playful games of tag became painful breathing exercises and gym class was excruciating for me, my symptoms were dismissed by my family and my doctor.
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