{"id":435512,"date":"2026-05-06T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:06:09","slug":"children-with-asthma-going-without-vital-medication-because-their-parents-cant-afford-it-new-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435512\/","title":{"rendered":"Children with asthma going without vital medication because their parents can\u2019t afford it, new survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018No parent should ever have to worry about how they\u2019re going to get their child the drugs they need to breathe,\u2019 says Dublin football manager Ger Brennan, World Asthma Day ambassador\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maya Drennan and her mum Patrycja mark World Asthma Day 2026. Two years ago a severe asthma attack came out of nowhere and within hours,\u00a0doctors feared for\u00a0Maya\u2019s life.\u00a0She's now learning how to manage the condition. Photo: Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f00521c0-9557-433a-b136-c06c578b67a9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Maya Drennan and her mum Patrycja mark World Asthma Day 2026. Two years ago a severe asthma attack came out of nowhere and within hours,\u00a0doctors feared for\u00a0Maya\u2019s life.\u00a0She&#8217;s now learning how to manage the condition. Photo: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One in 10 children had to go without their medication to control asthma in the past three months because their parents could not afford to buy it, a new survey reveals today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It comes as worrying figures show that over that the past year, more than one-third of children with asthma have been hospitalised because of the condition, with one in seven having to be admitted twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018No parent should ever have to worry about how they\u2019re going to get their child the drugs they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4593,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-435512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}