Asthma is an inflammatory disease that cause the air path of lungs to be swollen leading to the problems in inhaling. The common symptoms that depicts the presence of asthma include wheezing, tightness of chest, repeated coughing and poor inhalation.
Reports show that 20.3 million Americans suffer with asthma and world wide more than 300 million people are suffering with asthma disease. Over 90% of people identify the symptoms of asthma while performing exercise, 55% experience the asthma symptoms during the climate change or in cold conditions and 60% people will experience the symptoms while having a second hand smoke.
In America, every day 40,000 individuals miss either school or work due to asthma and every day 30,000 asthma attacks occur in United States. More than 5,000 people are rushed to hospitals daily due to asthma. In United States, Richmond is recored as the worst city for asthma and other worst cities are Memphis, Nashville etc.