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Real Life Example Name: Karen Age: 26 years "I used to find my asthma so inconvenient. I am a sales manager and my job involves a lot of travelling. I always seemed to need my ventolin in the middle of an important meeting or when I was in some public place. I used it 3 or 4 times a day at least and never thought anything of it. I had been give a brown inhaler once but it didn't seem to do much so I usually didn't bother. It was only when I spotted this book on asthma at an airport store, in China of all places, that I began to understand I should have been taking the brown one to stop me having the symptoms in the first place! Now it seems far less of an inconvenience. I always remember my preventer. I use it twice a day and hardly need my ventolin at all! Strangely enough, I seem to have more energy than before - but that may be coincidence of course...". Comments Life in the twentieth century is busy and stressful. Asthma can certainly seem nothing but an added and unwanted inconvenience. Karen found out, by chance, that a little knowledge goes a long way. Her asthma was poorly controlled. She was relying on her ventolin and needing it far too frequently; she was definitely at risk of a bad asthma attack. By learning that she needed her preventer every day, the inconvenience lessened once her asthma became well controlled. She may well have been feeling less energetic if her asthma was uncontrolled. Taking time to learn about your asthma and how to control it can at least minimise the inconvenience, as well as keeping you much healthier now and in the future.

Topic "Society and Self" Updated 14th August 2003

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