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Summary

The number of asthma sufferers, particularly amongst the urban population, is rapidly increasing. If you would like to learn more about this disease of the respiratory system, consider visiting the Usenet newsgroup alt.support.asthma in your preferred news client. Users in this group discuss various asthma related topics such as common medications and their efficacy, non-pharmaceutical treatment of asthma, definitions and terms frequently used when discussing asthma, recommended diet for asthmatics, personal stories from patients and caretakers, allergies and allergy shots, air quality and allergens, and more. The newsgroup?s FAQ has a lot of information for people who have been recently diagnosed, their family, friends, and caretakers. Within the FAQ and the newsgroup itself, you can get information on the definition and causes of asthma, it?s prevalence, asthma attacks and when to seek help, diagnosis and monitoring of the disease, risk factors and triggers, medications such as rescue inhalers and maintenance drugs, links to other helpful information, medical websites, etc.