Health is Gold (161): Manage your asthma

One in nine people in Australia has asthma. It affects people of all ages. Some people get asthma when they are young, others when they are older.

Source: AAP

Asthma is a long-term lung condition. 

People with asthma have sensitive airways in their lungs which react to triggers, causing a ‘flare-up’. In a flare-up, the muscles around the airway squeeze tight, the airways swell and become narrow and there is more mucus.

These things make it harder to breathe.