Lisa Hall lives with severe asthma. Since November, she has been hospitalised three times after suffering with viral infections and coronavirus.
She is sharing her experience of battling asthma after new data research from Asthma + Lung UK Cymru revealed that people are twice as likely to die of a lung condition during winter compared to summer. Winter is a dangerous time for people with lung conditions as viruses such as flu and Covid-19, and cold air from plummeting temperatures are top triggers for life-threatening asthma attacks and can cause other lung conditions to get worse – leaving people struggling to breathe.
Lisa, 42, was diagnosed with asthma when she was 28 after visiting the GP about a cough that had persisted for three weeks. She was prescribed inhalers to manage the condition but over the years it has progressively got worse and up until recently she was admitted to hospital dozens of times a year to treat asthma attacks.
