Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition in which the airways become inflamed, thereby, making it hard for a patient to breathe. The Global Asthma Report 2018 says that “among India’s 1.31 billion people, about 6% of children and 2% of adults have asthma”.

In our previous blog on Asthma, “Is the Toxic Air you breathe-in causing ASTHMA?”, we discussed how the disease is related to air pollution, its symptoms, and ways of its management.