[scampi]

Hi all,

I have a family member who suffers with mild asthma, how have similare sufferers found their asthma sinec arriving in NZ???

[willsken]

Can't answer the question directly but there was an article that you may find interesting.

The single most striking feature of the ISAAC data, was the uniformly high rates of asthma symptoms reporting by children from the UK, and ex-UK colonies with a history of extensive in-migration of UK citizens, Fig. 1. The highest rates were seen in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada with lower rates in the US and much lower rates in Hong Kong, Singapore and India. In these latter three countries, some or all of the questionnaires were delivered in English, but the respondents were predominantly indigenous, suggesting that it is not the language of enquiry that is the principal determinant of symptom reporting. .


Full text: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1034/j.1398-9995.2002.25004.x/full/?cookieSet=1

[*Paul]

Mine has gotten slightly worse. In fact I never knew I had asthma until I moved back to NZ even though both other male adults in the family suffer from it.

[veronica]

I don't have much experience of asthma except to say that our neighbour in the UK suffered really badly from it, but when he was transferred to Bournemouth it was much better than when he lived in Essex. So its a bit of a hard question to quantify when different areas within the same country vary to each individual.

[westies]

I suppose even if it gets worse, asthma is easily treated, so not really a problem, may be you will need a change of treatments, but all asthma drugs are available here as in the uk, so you will need to monitor symptoms and see how you go!
Good luck

[scampi]

Many thanks for the replies

:)