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Q&A: Asthma cure
 

Nowadays, we do not have a cure for asthma.

But it is important to understand what we mean by this statement.
We can offer people with asthma a life free of asthma symptoms. That is sure if patient and family follow medical recommendations: taking medicines, avoidance of triggers, quit tobacco...

But we cannot solve the problem that asthma is a heritable disease. We do not have treatments againts altered genes involved in asthma (we still need to know all genes related to asthma !).

Besides, it is a mistake believe asthma will disappear when children become an adult. In fact asthma remain as the most frecuent disease among teenagers and 5% of adults suffer asthma.

Our message is positive but it includes a warning:

children and adolescents with asthma can have a life free of asthma symptoms (that means, a life free of asthma), but really asthma remains, airways inflammation remains, and if family leaves correct asthma cares, asthma symptoms will come back again.