Asthma attack deaths in England and Wales are 'at highest level for a decade'
Nicki said:"Bailey walked into the bedroom and just said 'Mummy I can't breathe properly', but I couldn't see any visible gasping for breath so I said 'Ok darling, come on I'll give you your inhaler, give you some puffs', and he stood up and I said 'Are you ok?' In the flick of a light switch he'd gone.
"I then started CPR. My friend was downstairs and I called her to call an ambulance. I said 'Bailey isn't breathing' and my neighbours heard and came rushing in, bearing in mind Mason is still in bed, confused and shouting 'What's happening mummy? What's happening?" Bailey Davis' mother warns others of the dangers of the condition and the importance for all sufferers to receive a yearly review
Professor Jonathan Grigg, at Queen Mary University of London, puts the increase in asthma deaths down to two issues. "The reason for this is very complicated. It's certainly on one hand to do with the environment - we're breathing in air pollution which we know makes asthma worse and actually we have new cases of asthma due to air pollution, but also our health care system is really not taking asthma as seriously as it should do.
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