{"id":7170,"date":"2025-08-11T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:11:38","slug":"asthma-can-be-fatal-remembering-ryan-gibbons-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7170","title":{"rendered":"Asthma can be fatal: Remembering Ryan Gibbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"192\"><strong data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"192\">Asthma attacks can be life-threatening \u2014 as tragically shown by the death of 12-year-old Ryan Gibbons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"417\">In 2012, Ryan had a fatal asthma attack at his Ontario school. His inhaler, locked in the office due to school policy, was out of reach. Despite efforts by his friends to get him help, he passed out and couldn\u2019t be revived.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"579\">Ryan\u2019s mother, Sandra Gibbons, had repeatedly tried to let him carry an extra inhaler, even providing a doctor\u2019s note, but the school confiscated it each time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"803\">Determined to prevent future tragedies, Sandra campaigned for change. Her efforts led to the passing of <strong data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"710\">Ryan\u2019s Law (Bill 135)<\/strong> in Ontario, requiring schools to let students carry their inhalers with a doctor\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"1038\">Though U.S. laws allow students to carry inhalers, enforcement is inconsistent, and some schools still restrict access. Asthma kills over 10 Americans a day \u2014 yet most of these deaths are preventable with timely access to medication.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"1038\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Remembering Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yBWPznZqDr0?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asthma attacks can be life-threatening \u2014 as tragically shown by the death of 12-year-old Ryan Gibbons. In 2012, Ryan had a fatal asthma attack at his Ontario school. His inhaler, locked in the office due to school policy, was out of reach. Despite efforts by his friends to get him help, he passed out and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=7170\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Asthma can be fatal: Remembering Ryan Gibbons&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7172,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/7172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}