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World Asthma Day: Doctors Ask 11 Million Asthmatic Filipinos ‘ASTHMAlaya Ka Ba Talaga?’

Today, May 3, is World Asthma Day. It’s an annual event organized by the “Global Initiative for Asthma” (GINA) to improve asthma awareness and care around the world. To date, there are 300 million people around the globe who are currently inflicted with the disease.

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In the Philippines, GSK celebrates this day with the unveiling of “ASTHMAlaya Ka Ba Talaga?” campaign, a disease awareness initiative that also seeks to encourage asthma patients, to be more proactive in consulting their doctors on how they can achieve asthma control.

Apparently, of all the 11 million Filipinos suffering from asthma, a whopping 98% of them remain uncontrolled or only partly controlled.

“This means that asthma patients will only use medication when they have attacks believing that as long as there are no attacks they will be okay. As such, they believe that it is enough that they have available medicines to be taken on an as-needed basis,” shares Dr. Sylvia Yang, World Asthma Day committee chair of Philippine College of Chest Physicians (PCCP).

So how do you know if you need asthma control? It’s easy, if you are an asthma patient who experiences daytime asthma symptoms (coughing or wheezing) more than twice a week, wakes up at night due to asthma, uses an asthma reliever more than twice a week or have any activity limitations due to asthma, you may have uncontrolled asthma and need to immediately consult your doctor.

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The celebration was participated by advocates from Philippine College of Chest Physicians (PCCP) and the Philippine Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Inc. (PSAAI) who are one with the advocacy of furthering awareness and urgency among patients to consult their doctors for proper asthma control.

Here are the videos from the launch of “ASTHMAlaya Ka Ba Talaga?” campaign:

For more details about asthma and how to control this disease, click HERE.

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