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haras_nosirrah

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

FACT asthma is classed as a disability, major attack of two or three tells me that this child sufferes with mild asthma, as an asthma sufferer spending my childhood/teens/adulthood in and out of hospital cardiac arrest 4 times, diary allergic adds extra care to that person, nightly monitoring for fear your child will have an attack in their sleep and die is one thing you can never overlook.

3 attacks a year to warrant hospital doesnt mean it aint all that bad, it means you havent been told of the bundles of mild attacks a day that was controlled by ventolin or a nebuliser with 2.5mg saline ventolin or even 5mg of saline ventlin and the child resting for hours after with shakes headaches and dizzyness, pehaps even sickness, with a tackicardic heart rate.

being subceptable to any infection you came into contact with, colds and chest infections are my achilliesheal, going out in damp air, having to suck on my inhaler everytime a diesel car or bus passed by as the diesel co2 fumes effected my greatly.

dont pass off half the snippet youve been told about, it isnt a disability because you knew one person to have it etc pahh hear that all the time, it affects people on different levels bronchal asthma,mild/moderate asthma, severe asthma. severe brittle asthma type 2 severe brittle asthma type 1, and then onto copd, and the worse asthma cand develop into emphysemia. asthma can be controled never cured its not reversable only the symptoms, youve heared of people growing out of it, only to later in adulthood for it to return with avengance in an active fit peson.

dont write off asthma as a non disability.

did you read any further than the first sentence.

I said my aunt died of asthma at the age of 13 so I am well aware of how serious a condition it can be. I myself have bronchial asthma and have had pneumonia twice so I didn't say that it was trivial. The poster did not say that the son ended up in hospital and was gravely ill with asthma 3 times a year - they said that they wanted the kids to have seperate bedrooms as the son has 2 to 3 asthma attacks a year and would keep his sister awake. This is mild asthma and therefore I would not consider it to make the child disabled.