EL PASO, Texas -- As a dangerous sewer gas continues to linger inside Brown Middle School, in West El Paso, district and state health officials maintain that according to their readings there are no health risks to students.

According to parents, the data doesn’t make sense because the fact is their children are sick.

Mathew Livingston's 11-year-old son started Brown at the beginning of the school year and almost instantly started feeling ill.

"When he first started here at Brown, he started having asthma symptoms, which he's never had ever in his life,” Livingston said. “He's had two attacks of asthma since he's started at the school.”

However, based on data given to the state health department from the district, the levels are not worrisome.

"The levels that have been found here are below the levels that have been found by those bodies to be associated with health effects, we relied on levels that were taken in December and January and are ongoing," said Dr. Luis Escobedo, of the Texas State Health Department.

If the levels were higher, they'd have symptoms like red eyes, nausea and headaches, according to literature on the gas, and those are the symptoms Livingston’s son complains of.

“He periodically comes home with headaches, nausea, red eyes, and it’s not the flu,” Livingston said.

His son isn't the only one. Almost every parent at the meeting claims their child is coming home with the same symptoms.

It left parents to believe that the district is giving the health department bad air readings or that there is something else lingering inside the school.

“When does it end? Give us a specific time period of when something will get done," Livingston said.