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According to the NHLBI guidelines, it is possible to control asthma to the extent that it has little impact on a person's life. Indeed, that is the objective of asthma management and treatment. However, the survey reveals that poor management of the disease means that many persons with asthma are suffering needlessly:
- During the previous month, people with asthma had an average of 75% more sick days than the general public. (Figure 13) Those with severe asthma spent an average of four days in bed due to illness in the previous month.
- Almost two-thirds (64%) of adults with asthma say their health limits their activity, compared to only one in four (26%) members of the general public. (Figure 14)
- Persons with asthma say that their condition limits what they can do in sports and recreation (48%), normal physical exertion (36%), sleeping (36%), and general lifestyle (31%), among other things. (Figure 15)
- In general, almost half (45%) of asthma sufferers say there are things that they would like to do that they cannot do because of their asthma. (Figure 16)
- Moreover, nearly half of adults (47%) and a third of children (34%) with asthma say that asthma has caused them to change their expectations about what they are able to do. (Figure 17)
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