Asthma and Heat: Managing Your Symptoms and Risk

Heat can affect anyone. But if you have asthma , heat might affect you even more. You can manage the effects of heat on your asthma with a few steps. How Can Heat Make Asthma Worse? Asthma is a chronic disease that causes your airways to get inflamed (swollen), become obstructed or narrowed and be overreactive to a variety of triggers. All these things can make it hard to breathe. Inflamed airways are more sensitive to irritants and harsh temperatures. These are called  triggers…

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