(Source: www.asthma.ie) A young woman with severe asthma says people need much more education about the condition and other invisible illnesses. Rachel Murray from Sligo says she feels the condition is often disregarded or played down because people don’t realise how severe it can be. She says as well as the typical coughing, she has to do clearing exercises to empty out her lungs so they don’t get infected, and she often has to deal with severe pain. She also wants them to learn more about the condition: “You can have asthma, but there are varying degrees of it…everyone’s symptoms are very, very different. And it’s just understanding that if you have intermittent asthma and you’re prescribed a blue inhaler, that’s very different to myself, where I’m taking four inhalers a day and a daily nebulizer and medication to try and control the inflammation in my airways.”