AAP News Vol. 13 No. 9 September 1997, p. 1
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AAP initiatives target management, stress of asthma

For families of children with asthma, stress is a fact of life.

"Your whole life revolves day to day around asthma," one parent says. "Is he going to be well? Is he going to be sick? Do we need more medicine? How is his behavior going to be on the medicine?"

Another parent comments, "I get angry with other people who don't understand how serious it is. And I think there's still a lot of stuff out there where people are, like, `Oh well, you know, it's in their head.'"