Asthma Can Kill

But what she was not told is that Mikey should see an allergist. She was not told that Mikey needed a medication to treat the inflammation on an ongoing basis.

So, she was just treating him when he was having these attacks, and when he died, he was just being a normal kid.

He was just playing and looked fine, was fine, had a little bit of a cough and a sniffle going, but the attack that killed him was one that came suddenly and without warning.

Another mother called me the other day, and she said her son was playing at the computer, and he said, “You know, mom, I need a breathing treatment,” and he stood up to make his breathing treatment because he’s 11 years old and that’s what he normally did, and she said she saw him very dusky and turning blue, got the breathing treatment on him, but it was too little. It was not enough. And she said, you know, “He didn’t look like he was going to die.” And yet he died.

Vicky Modica actually has initiated a campaign that people will be seeing throughout the country over the next few months called “Mikey’s Mom Didn’t Know Asthma Could Kill,” and it’s a very it’s a short dramatic story because, her whole philosophy is it’s too late for Mikey, but it’s not too late for other people.

I want other people to know that there are things that they can do to prevent asthma death. I don’t want them to find out after the fact like I did.