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ChowBella

Does anyone have any information or opinions on living in Cuenca as an asthmatic? My asthma is very well managed as is our daughter's but we do have concerns. From what I've read there is a good deal of pollution (which is expected, of course) but when paired with the altitude of Cuenca does the air quality really become that bad?

Does anyone have asthma living in Cuenca and if you do how badly does it effect you?

vinny66

Hello,

I don't know how the altitude and the pollution it could affect you. Is hard to tell because every person is different.
There's many people with asthma living in Cuenca and they're Ok but I remembered an american women who has no respiratory problems and when she came to live in Cuenca got a severe respiratory problem and she had to go back to the States.

Vinny

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