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THP HERALD Wednesday August 16 IMS- Page Summer camp helps asthma sufferers breathe easier lleralil staff When you rt a child and all your friends are going out lo play to run to jump to get breathless with activity it not being one of the over Canadians with asthma But in Hills and in the rest of Halton Region The Lung Association provides a summer camp for those kids with special needs Camp organuers keep track of who is using their medic and mines v hen an ac tivily reaches the point of being enough exercise Nineyear old Billy Harding from Burlington is no exception Billy has asthma an allergic con that makes it difficult to breath sometimes The passages in his lungs get blocked up and he can begin to wheeze and gasp for air I have to use an asthma puffer and all that said Billy a bright boy with blond hair big eyes and a readv smile He peeks out from his baseball cap to say sometimes tf I run too much I have trouble breathing Bill likes the camp He doesn t feel abnormal and he realizes that here are other children his age and slightly older and younger who have similar needs and similar dangers It s different when you re around other kids ith asthma becaust some oi them can t run a lot and others in When you re in school ever bod cm run Like it different here Billy said he likes camp because there are puffers everywhere Puf are the medical treatments used to widen narrow air passages to allow the air to pa The drug can relax the asthmatic person to the point where breathing becomes easier Camp councillors on the needs of the boys and girls although not all the children are asthmatic some of them are the brothers and sisters of those with asthma hey have an hour worth of aerobics day and that to on their breathing said a camp and a university student who plans to enter the teaching Ms Hammetl is joined by two other students the asthma sum mercamp Other than the puffers that make an appearance each day the Halton Lung Association camp is just like any other camp Ms said Children in the camp travel to places like Kelso Park Kingdom airy Lake and local provincial parks They enjoy games and water sports ing is particularly good exercise for asthmatics according to the Ontario Lung Association the children have raies and play capture the flag They also have crayfish races which Billy marvels over His activity is playing in the creeks I like playing in the creek because we make boats out of popsicle sticks and we catch crayfish he said Asthma is the result of family background and is often accen by infection pollens and house dust pets strenuous exer else climatic changes and tobacco smoke and smog The Lung Association of Ontario has called it the most common chronic disease of childhood One of every eight children in Canada gets asthma between the ages of three and six It can then last until the child is eight to years old One in twenty live children may find the asthma lasting until age or 12 Severe cases of asthma con tinue into adulthood Canadian Lung Association says more than one million Cana are affected by asthma And reports of death from the disease the rise The Halton Lung Association h is been running asthma camps for children for over 15 years in the Region For more on asthma or the summer camps call the Halton Lung Association at 632 in Burlington Main Street South Downtown Georgetown 8731470 COMN Wed Sept fil Olde Fashioned Value Day Watch For Details Communications Inc GuelphSt Georgetown Ontario 8733310 A Reliable Sophisticated Desktop Fax from Toshiba Imagine lift without Ihe of modem technology on which out lifestyle depends a put of Ihe of information successful icalion means timing amazing new TF25I Facsimile is the future of information It the compact facsimile for those who wart answers now when it counts The is your world of you can transmit documents in as little as seconds per page RirthertheTRSlcansendphotographs with remarkable accuracy And control it all from the convenience of an LCD command 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