When I was growing up, things were often quite frightening. I had two older brothers and they were vicious bullies. However, one of them also suffered from fairly severe asthma. I can remember many long nights when the whole family was abruptly awake because my brother was in the living room struggling to get a breath of air. My family would hook him up to his electric nebulizer machine, which was supposed to open his airways and allow medicine into his lungs. Generally, I remember this machine making a huge racket while he continued to arrive on the floor gasping for air. It was dramatic and terrifying for everybody. The strangest part was, my brother had always been very fit and physically capable. He ran around with no problem on the field, mastering every sport and being a critical part of every team he joined. However, late at night in our house he routinely suffered from vicious asthma attacks. It was a major mystery and it caused our doctors many headaches, as well. Many years down the line, we realized that his asthma was absolutely triggered by something inside the house. Dirty air ducts. A close friend of ours finally suggested that we have a professional HVAC company come clean out the air ducts, at which point a mass of dirt, dander, an animal droppings was discovered. Obviously, this was the cause of his continued respiratory distress. From the day that our air ducts were professionally cleaned out, my brother never had a severe asthma attack again. We all slept more soundly.
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