Living With Asthma

Asthma can be controlled if you know the symptoms and triggers and have a plan of action! View Preventing Asthma Episodes: Symptoms, Triggers and Risks

Asthma can be treated with a variety of medications: View Preventing, Treating and Managing with Asthma with Medications

Additional Resources and Guidelines:

American Academy of Pediatrics, Children with Allergy and Asthma:
Site has information on allergy, asthma, providers, and resources, including links to books and pamphlets.

• “Recognizing an Asthma Attack”

• Patient Education Resources

• From the APP Bookstore:
• “Guide to Your Child's Asthma and Allergies ”
• “How to Help Your Child with Asthma”

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology: “How to Help Your Allergies and Asthma”.

National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute (US DHHS, NIH). “What is Asthma” Includes information on medications, an asthma action plan, and information on triggers and how to control the things that make asthma worse. Available in Spanish.

Management of Chronic Asthma: Evidence Report/Technology Assessment Number 44 : From the Evidence-Based Practice Program, US Agency for Health Care Quality and Research.   Review and synthesis of peer-reviewed published literature to examine positive and adverse outcomes from long-term use of various medications and in various combinations, the effectiveness of adding an asthma management plan to medication therapy, and whether a peak-meter flow monitoring plan is more effective than symptom-based management plan. Full document is available.

National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report #2: Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, US Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health Bethesda , MD : National Institutes of Health; 1997. Publ. No. 98-4051.

National Jewish Medical and Research Center: About Asthma.  Portal for information, resources and treatment programs at the National Jewish Medical Research Center.

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