Parents urged to prepare for children's 'back to school asthma'

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Parents are being urged to prepare for a seasonal spike in juvenile asthma as the beginning of the school-year approaches. Hospital presentations with the condition almost double in February, but experts say there are a range of precautions which can be taken to counter so-called "back-to-school asthma". Luke Waters reports.



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