Numbers in Qatar - 20 % students with asthma

20% of students
suffer from asthma in Qatar

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my own experience - my child had terrible attacks of cough -it happened that she was coughing six weeks in a row at nights  - the emergency doctors kept telling me that it was  just stubborn virus ...finally one Arab doctor gave her antibiotics and she became OK
but sooner or later the night coughs came back and the doctors at the emergency made us believe that it was normal ...:(
finally we found ourselves at a private clinics  where an Asian doctor drew our attention to studies about milk that we buy at the supermarket that   might trigger asthma .
so we cut back on our dairy consumption and especially no milk in the afternoon or evening
mysteriously the  night coughs vanished !
that is really a doctor who gave us that advice !