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30 people die from asthma each day. Asthma symptoms are not specific and the diagnosis is heavily dependent on a detailed clinical history with some supporting clinical findings and supportive investigative tests; there is no specific diagnostic test for asthma. It is also common for patients not to present any asthma symptoms at the time of their clinical visit.

Without a gold standard test available today, asthma diagnosis is still principally based on a patient’s thorough medical history recorded by experienced clinicians orally instead of clinical evidence. This is a highly subjective approach for young children especially to describe their medical history accurately. The current practice of asthma diagnosis is therefore subjective and requires several repeated follow-up visitations by patients before appropriate medication can be prescribed to patients to control their symptoms. This process can take up to years, endangering a patient’s life from inadequate treatment control plan.