Asthma tragedy parents warn students to keep inhaler on them

THE family of a young woman who died from an asthma attack after collapsing in a nightclub have urged students to take the condition seriously.

- By Jane Kirby

Zoe Nunn, 20, was studying politics at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge when she fell ill with asthma and suffered a cardiac arrest.

As a child, she had been admitted to hospital with asthma, but had not had an attack for a long time and was not carrying her inhaler.

Her mum Louise Nunn, 49, dad Mark, 52, and sister Lily, 27, have joined forces with the charity Asthma + Lung UK to warn students heading off to university always to carry inhalers if they have asthma.

Mrs Nunn, of Ipswich, Suffolk, said: “We want to raise awareness.

Sorrow

“If we can even change one person’s view and make them carry an inhaler, we can prevent another family having to go through what we’ve gone through.