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How do you define severe asthma?
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Severe asthma: Depends on clinical symptoms, number of exacerbations in a month and monitoring of lung function via a spirometer. A pulmonologist and /or allergist can treat it and follow it closely and keep it under control.
Answered 6/17/2013
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