Great question. Back 100 years ago it was believed that asthma was all in your head and that stress did cause asthma. However, that fallacy has since been disproven. However, while stress cannot cause you to develop asthma, it has been proven to act as an asthma trigger. For a list of all the possible asthma triggers, click here.
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