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Asthma is difficult to define. Instead most asthma professionals choose to describe its symptoms. However they define it, almost all agree that asthma is the only disease that is increasing in the Western world for which there is no known cure.
According to Asthma UK figures, there are over 5.2 million asthmatics in this country alone. On December 1st 2004, the BBC reported research carried out by the University of Wales which showed that asthma rates among children had quadrupled since the 1970s.
Specialists explain that asthma is a condition that makes your airways, the small tubes which carry air in and out of your lungs, sensitive and inflamed. When they become inflamed they constrict, making breathing more and more difficult until eventually you have an asthma attack.
At that stage almost any expert you consult will recommend an inhaler. Indeed, an inhaler will probably bring immediate and very welcome relief. Unfortunately, soon you begin to wonder whether the more you use the inhaler the more you need it.
You're right! That's exactly what happens and Professor Buteyko discovered why.
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