Why Is Asthma Important?

It has been known that out of every 11 children, at least one, will have or later develop Asthma, because of the triggers present in daily life, such as pollen, dust mites, and allergens. Imagine being a young child again, wanting to run, and play, but you're unable to, since you’re having to gasp for air and feeling pain within your chest, well that's the struggle with asthma. Asthma, one of the many ailments of the lungs, that can leave anyone gasping for air, in need of an asthma pump to breathe normally once again. Due to this lack of efficient air into the lungs, some individuals have even been hospitalized in response to an asthma attack, and it is believed that about 9-10 will people die everyday as a result of their asthma. Even though 9-10 people dying a day from asthma seems like such a small number; times that by 365 days in a year, and that means over 3,000 people will die from Asthma annually, which is like wiping out the whole city of Provincetown in Cape Cod Massachusetts.