Experts warn against the ‘trivialisation’ of asthma

There is no evidence that Irish doctors are over-diagnosing asthma in children but the potentially fatal condition is often trivialised, the Asthma Society of Ireland has said.

The society was responding to two leading respiratory experts who believe the diagnosis of asthma in children has been “trivialised”, with inhalers dished out like “fashion accessories”.

In an article published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, they highlight a study in which half of 100 children received an asthma diagnosis.