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“My whole life I felt stigmatised, I felt afraid of talking about it, I felt like it was only me.”

Risk factors for throat cancer include smoking or chewing tobacco, drinking alcohol and Human papillomavirus (HPV).

Finger or thumb sucking should stop before school age to avoid mouth problems.

People who have asthma or hay fever can get severe asthma symptoms during pollen season when high grass pollen counts combine with a certain type of thunderstorm.

Professor McDonald explains thunderstorm asthma

Watch Mohamed's story and hear how his hay fever turned to asthma after a thunderstorm asthma event.

Thunderstorm asthma is triggered when there is high amounts of grass pollen in the air. It can result in people wheezing, feeling short of breath, and tight in the chest with coughing.

Watch the video where medical experts, Dr Michael Sutherland and Professor Frank Thien, explain who is at risk of thunderstorm asthma.

Download media kit resources and high-resolution files to support thunderstorm asthma media.

Thunderstorm asthma overview