Allergy UK has raised some serious concerns that the people suffering from asthma are putting themselves at more risk instead of taking control of their condition and working towards its betterment.

They revealed some alarming figures that showed that 78% of 464 sufferers think that their condition is mild or moderate use up to four inhalers each month and the charity specifies that the sufferers need not use even one inhaler a month if their disease is well controlled.

Further, they stated that 15% of mild or moderate sufferers said they had attended the emergency department throughout the last year due to their asthma.

Revealing the medication history, nearly half the people prescribed oral steroids in the past year which again is bad as Allergy UK states that using this level of medication means the condition isn't under control as it should only be for emergencies.

A new survey carried out by Allergy UK and funded by Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK revealed that three out of four people with asthma are unaware they are at risk of a fatal attack simply because all of them wrongly believe their condition is under control.

Asthma has been described as an inflammatory disease of the airways. It causes the airway to constrict and result in attacks of breathlessness and wheezing that can be fatal. To treat this disease patients use different inhalers to combat an attack or keep the airways open.

Every day around 200 people have been hospitalized because of their asthma in the UK; of the total of 73,000, more than 1,000 have been reported dying. UK estimates 2.7 million of those who consider their asthma to be mild or moderate suffer from breathlessness and 45% suffer from wheezing despite regular medication.