Asthma is a respiratory disease that can sideline children and adults. It is connected to the incidences of allergies that many suffer.

Asthma constricts air passages can cause labored breathing, wheezing and coughing. The asthmatic can pass out if symptoms are not controlled. After passing out the patient can suffocate, which can lead to death.

Children have a 70% chance of having asthma if both of their parents have asthma. Asthma is not contagious but it is becoming alarmingly common. There are about 10 million Americans with Asthma. Between the years of 1982 and 1992 the asthma rate rose by 42%.