What are the most important things I can do to help improve my childs asthma?
Three important things you can do are: • Check the environment • Keep lines of communication open • Understand your child’s treatment plan In terms of the environment, removing a “trigger” from the child’s environment can often do wonders. For example, even though a child can survive the presence of a cat by inhaling steroids to control asthma, he or she would be far better off if the cat went to another home. Generally speaking, the more “triggers” you can remove, and the less medicine your child has to take as a result, the better he or she will be.Good communication between you and your child, the child and the doctor, and you and the doctor, is essential. The three of you need to know what symptoms the child has and what brings them on – and that means talking to one other.
