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The indications of asthma in

The indications of asthma in children are often different from indications of asthma in matures. While lots of matures suffer from breathless, children with asthma are much more possible to cough. Because children can’t for all time tell you what they are feeling, they want you to pay attention to the symptoms.

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And, it is not just smoking...

There are other factors that play a key role in the increased incidence of asthma, like genetics, allergies, and environmental factors, including but not limited to the types of cleaners we use in our homes and the pollutants in the air (cigarette smoke being just one of them).

I haven't read the study, but I wonder if the investigators controlled these other variables to determine any real link to asthma.

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I was wondering the same thing about the smoking. I believe that my son's asthma was caused by prenatal smoking, and there are studies that show a higher incidence of asthma with prenatal smoking. My son has never been abused.

As for my sister and me -- both of us were severely abused as children. I have never had asthma. My sister has occupational asthma. Neither of our parents smoked.

I'll have to take an informal poll on my abuse survivor message board and see what percentage of them have suffered from asthma.

- Faith

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