Every 19 minutes a child is admitted to hospital because their asthma threatens to kill them. Every seven hours, another person dies from an asthma attack.
Asthma puts people's lives at risk every minute of every day.
A severe attack can crush the breath from your lungs and drain the colour from your lips and fingers. People can feel fine one minute and then be fighting for their life the next. Asthma can and does kill.
Will you wait until another child’s lips turn blue?
Or will you support Asthma UK today with a gift of £4 a month? By acting right now you could save a person's life.
The condition has a stranglehold over the lives of millions of people in the UK. Asthma is so widespread that most people know somebody who must carry an inhaler with them at all times. There are an astonishing 2.6 million people with severe asthma in the UK alone.
The seriousness of asthma can be underestimated by many people, even healthcare professionals. People are often not aware that beneath the familiar plastic casing of a reliever inhaler there is a life-saving medicine that can open the airways during an asthma attack.
Research today could help release the stranglehold that asthma has over the lives of millions of people with the condition.
But for some people current medicines do not always work. They are not as effective as they need to be, and are not always correctly used. People with difficult to control asthma sadly face frequent hospital visits or can be stuck in their own homes, trapped by breathlessness.
Shockingly four people die from an asthma attack each day. Research today could help save lives tomorrow.
We have no time to waste. At Asthma UK we are committed to funding research today that could save lives tomorrow.
Please don't wait another 19 minutes. Don't let another seven hours pass by without taking action against asthma.
Support Asthma UK and its vital research today, by giving £4 or more each month. By acting now you could save a person's life.