YOUR ASTHMA TREATMENT ACTION PLAN

Inhaled, oral, and intravenous medications are the most common ways to treat asthma. Treatment also involves identifying asthma triggers and avoiding them or removing them from your immediate environment. Once your doctor has prescribed medications to control asthma, it’s time to work with them to create an asthma treatment action plan. This can allow you to increase or decrease your medication doses based on your changing symptoms. You can also create a list of your triggers and how you will take measures to avoid them. Your doctor may also want you to track your asthma symptoms with a peak flow meter, which can help monitor how effectively your medications are controlling your asthma.

P.S. Lung function tests can be done before and after trying an asthma medication to measure improvement in lung function on the medication.

Source: webmd.com (Allergy 9-3-23 HT)

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