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Q&A: Is it possible to die from asthma?

 

Unfortunately the answer is YES.

There is a large checklist of factors related to the risk of dying from asthma.

• There are factors related to asthma characteristics: severity degree of the disease, loss of lung function...
  
• Other factors are related to the patient: compliance with the treatments, fears about some medicines...
  
• Other ones depend on healthcare system: accesibility, costs of care...

Parents can do a lot of things to prevent dying from asthma, and the most important one is to follow the medical recomendations.
If you have some doubts, you must ask your doctor about them, but PLEASE your child must never leave his/her medicines for asthma without having talked to your doctor.