One of the most common questions asked is whether a child will grow out of asthma. This is not an easy question to answer specifically for an individual child. Many children do, in fact, outgrow asthma. These are usually children who developed their asthma as a result of an infection, do not have allergies, and do not have anyone with allergies or asthma in the immediate family. These children's symptoms usually go away before they are about 6 years old. There are other children who do come from an allergic family and usually see their symptoms go away as they go through puberty, only to return later in life. There are no good tests that can predict which children will grow out of asthma and which will continue having symptoms as they grow older.