Dr. Mario Zambrano, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician with Homestead Hospital, says asthma will go away when your body has adjusted to the environment and learned how to deal with allergies and allergens. “If you don’t follow your doctor’s advice, if you don’t listen to the cues, asthma can become adult asthma.”

Some benefits of good asthma control are: it prevents chronic and troublesome symptoms like coughing and shortness of breath; it reduces the need of quick-relief medicines; and it helps maintain good lung function.