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" Question My granddaughter has asthma and on being hospitalised recently they said she has brittle asthma.  What is this?    Answer I&amp;#039;m sorry to hear that your granddaughter&amp;#039;s asthma became severe enough for her to be admitted to hospital recently.  When doctors use the term &amp;#039;brittle asthma&amp;#039; they mean that the asthma can change from being apparently well controlled to being poorly controlled in a short space of time.  This means that the person with asthma may change from feeling relatively well to having quite severe difficulty breathing very rapidly.  People with brittle asthma also tend to be those who have relatively frequent asthma attacks, and in between acute attacks may have ongoing symptoms such as coughing and wheezing. which may require quite large doses of medication to keep them under control.  I hope the doctors now looking after your granddaughter can give you all the information you would like about her asthma, but if you need more general information you might like to contact Asthma UK. Yours sincerely The NetDoctor Medical Team   Other Q&amp;amp;As Can you tell me about Hirschsprung&amp;#039;s disease? Congenital ptosis Cystic fibrosis Dandy-Walker syndrome Does my son have Klinefelter&amp;#039;s syndrome? Fragile X syndrome Help needed for Osgood-Schlatter&amp;#039;s disease Henoch-Sch\u00F6nlein purpura Henoch-Sch\u00F6nlein purpura Hydrocephalus I&amp;#039;m worried about my two-year-old&amp;#039;s lungs I think my son has Paget&amp;#039;s disease Kawasaki syndrome &amp;amp;#8211; what are the long-term consequences? Multiple sclerosis in childhood My daughter has a hole-in-the-heart My daughter has hypothyroidism My daughter was born with a sacral dimple My grandson has Aarskog syndrome My nephew has a germ cell tumour My nephew has neuromata My son has Gilbert&amp;#039;s disease Niemann-Pick disease Sacral dimple on the base of the spine Scoliosis Spina bifida occulta Tetralogy of Fallot Thrombocytopenia Vernal conjunctivitis problem What causes hydronephrosis? What does &amp;#039;crossed lateral&amp;#039; mean? What is autoimmune colitis? What is fragile X syndrome? What is hemihypertrophy? What is Henoch-Sch\u00F6nlein purpura? What is Hirschsprung&amp;#039;s? What is Hirschsprung&amp;#039;s disease? What is HSP? What is Kabuki syndrome? What is Kawasaki disease? What can you tell me about Perthes&amp;#039; disease? What is Perthes&amp;#039; disease? What is Pierre Robin syndrome? What is pulmonary oedema? What is spina bifida occulta?   Last updated 17.06.2014 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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