A 22-year-old female asked:
can you grow out of asthma? i smoke and am around allergies often but with no effects on my " asthma" i was diagnosed with 12 years ago.
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Dr. Balminder Mangat answered
47 years experience Addiction Medicine
Asthma: No, you don't grow out of Asthma. It waxes and wanes and may cause no trouble for years.With specific trigger may stimulate the process again.
Smoking and other exposures need not be challenged to evoke Asthma
Answered on May 21, 2014
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I : I feel really bad for the situation, but do not have enough information to really help. Sorry.
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