Children’s asthma inhalers given out ‘like fashion accessories’: Report says doctors are wrongly taking the slightest wheeze as sign of the condition

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Inhalers are being dished out like ‘fashion accessories’ with too many children being wrongly diagnosed with asthma, experts warn.

Doctors are taking the slightest wheeze to be a sign of the condition and handing out inhalers where they are not needed, they say.

And they warn that the wrong diagnoses are costing the NHS a fortune – as well as risking needless side effects in healthy children.

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