• Question: Does asthma have the potential to kill people??

    Asked by Orla Graham :-) to Arthur on 13 Nov 2014.
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      Arthur Dyer answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Absolutely it does… Asthma has been around since at least ancient Egypt as far as we know and back then it definitely could kill people because they simply weren’t able to breath and then they panicked and so started breathing quicker and shallower and eventually died.

      Nowadays it’s much much easier to treat asthma and so dying of it is quite rare but asthma shouldn’t be taken for granted.

      Breathing is quite important though so anything that stops it is deadly.

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