of another person who is likely to develop it is high. New research suggests that environmental factors such as tobacco smoke, infections, exposure to some allergens early in the life may increase the chances of developing asthma. Other factors include exercise and viral infections. Some people have asthma only when they exercise or have a viral infection.

Martin Blaser of the New York University School of Medicine believe in the hygiene hypothesis which states that young children need to be exposed to lots of microbes for the healthy and normal development of their immune systems.

Dr. Blaser and fellow researcher Yu Chen have found that people who carry a once-common stomach bacterium called helicobacter pylori were 40 per cent less likely to have asthma at an early age than those who didn't carry the strain.

"Helicobacter is an ancient organism that everyone used to have in the stomach - and now it's disappearing," Dr. Blaser said.

"Less than 10 per cent of kids in Canada and the U.S. currently carry it ... At the same time, asthma rates have been rising."

This suggests, he said, that exposure to microbial infections in early childhood prevents or diminishes the development of asthma and allergies.

If that is a common sense approach, equally so is the finding vegetables and fruits considerably lessen the chances of asthma attacks.

The development of inhaled corticosteroids has revolutionized asthma treatment, which has moved away from treating the symptoms to controlling the underlying inflammation of bronchial airways.

Inhalation of the asthma medicine is the most effective treatment as it delivers medicine right to the place where it is meant to work, and is also devoid of any side effects.

For people suffering from mild asthma (infrequent attacks), the use of inhalers can be need-based, while those having significant asthma (symptoms occurring
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