No: We can very effectively treat asthma, but we can't make it go away. Make sure that's the diagnosis tho...
Answered 9/30/2020
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See: People can grow out of asthma with age , many will have recurrence in middle age . Triggers and smoking are bad.
Answered 2/25/2017
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Is it really asthma?: Wheezing & coughing, the symptoms of asthma, are a result of narrowing of the breathing tubes. When breathing tubes are narrowed at birth asthma is rarely the cause. Diagnoses to rule-out: reflux, compression of the airway by an aberrant artery or vein, tracheal ring, congenital airway mass like a cyst or hemangioma. Etc. Wheezing in young children is common with colds & resolves in 50% by age 7.
Answered 7/20/2012
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Depends: Much of what causes wheezing in infancy & early childhood is not true asthma. Many respiratory viruses will trigger a similar set of symptoms that are treated the same, but more than 60% will grow out of this by school age. True asthma has a genetically related abnormality in lung tissue mechanics which you never grow out of.Many achieve good control but the defect is permanent.
Answered 3/1/2017
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