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Severe asthma

Severe asthma affects around 4% of people with asthma. If you have severe asthma this section is for you.

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Severe asthma is a different type of asthma that’s harder to treat. If you’ve been diagnosed with severe asthma life can sometimes be challenging. And you may need lots more medicines and treatments to control your symptoms.

Here you can get expert advice to help you manage your condition and make life a bit easier, along with tips and insights from other people who have first-hand experience of what it’s like living with severe asthma.

What is severe asthma?

Learn about severe asthma and the treatments available

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Diagnosing severe asthma

All you need to know about getting a severe asthma diagnosis and how to help the process

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Treating severe asthma

Working with your healthcare team will help you find the best possible treatments

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Managing severe asthma

Tips and ideas on ways you can help yourself and make life easier

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Making life easier with severe asthma

There are lots of things you can do to help make everyday life easier

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Your severe asthma stories

Inspiring stories from people with severe asthma

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Could you benefit from better asthma treatments?

If you're struggling to keep your asthma under control, it could be severe asthma. If it is, you may be able to get newer and better treatments to help your asthma be as well controlled as it can be. Let our interactive tool help you find the next step to take. This might be talking to your GP about referral to a specialist, or talking to your specialist about biologic medicines. With the right help and the right medicines, you could feel better.

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