anwanti

Hi,

My family and I emigrated from the UK 7 years ago. I was pregnant with my second child, a lovely baby girl. We rented our home for the first six month and it was a weatherboard house which was damp.

My little girl has severe asthma and she has had a number of visits to the hospital with her asthma.

Just the last few days I was thinking about how she would be in the UK with her asthma as I have heard when people have moved from different countries their asthma has got better and they no longer suffer.

Can anyone relate to this please or give me a little advice .

Thanks

jmh

I doubt the returning to the UK would help. NZ is second only to the UK in childhood asthma, so both countries have a problem. I would imagine a warmer drier climate might help, e.g. parts of Australia. I have heard of people moving to Spain to ease asthma.

One thing that has always interested me is that, like in the UK, asthma is far more prevalent than when I was a kid in the 70's. Which leads one to suggest environmental causes (e.g. diet, chemicals in food, pollution, antibiotic use).

anwanti

Thanks for your advice.

kiwi white

My asthma is better here in Dunedin than back in Leeds. One of the many reasons we wanted to live in a small city when we moved over here.