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Child asthma vs. adult asthma or do you get both?
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Depends: Most children with asthma still have asthma as adults, although the severity of asthma can change over time.
Answered 2/7/2015
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Label confusion: Many of those who wheeze during a variety of illnesses as infants and young kids grow out of this by school age (about 60%).They may be labeled as having asthma but I don't call this asthma. There are kids with true asthma that will show by 1yo in males & 4 in most females.They will have the tendency to have adult asthma. However, asthma is quite variable in intensity so label confusion is common
Answered 6/27/2017
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