Felicia Bowen
Professor and Associate Dean for Access and Engagement at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, and President of NAPNAP; a pediatric nurse practitioner and U.S. Army Nurse Corps veteran with expertise in pediatric asthma and health equity.
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Sep 23, 2026
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When I first began treating asthma, it was mild, moderate, severe, and we had allergic and exercise-induced.
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But as we've learned more, we've found that there are different types of asthma and some types are more severe than others.
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So the most common type of asthma that we see begins in childhood and and it's allergic or atopic asthma.
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And so these will be the kids that they're itchy and you might see eczema on them and they have their flares up and down.
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