Got Asthma?

About 25 million Americans suffer from asthma, 7 million of whom are children. According to the American Lung Association, Asthma is a chronic and life-threatening disease for which there is no cure. In 2010, asthma attacks resulted in 2.1 million emergency room visits. Attacks like these take the lives of several thousand Americans each year. This is especially tragic when it comes to a manageable condition like asthma.

Clinics can serve to prevent many asthma-related emergency department visits through health maintenance and patient education. Our Clinic hosted Asthma Day 2015 to provide critical asthma medication updates and to empower patients through interactive education tailored to their condition. 

There are 5 steps to managing asthma: understanding it, building a support team, reducing exposure to asthma triggers, taking asthma related medicines, and using daily management tools appropriately. Asthma Day 2015 provided a necessary basic physiological explanation behind asthma and its effect on the respiratory airways. Family and friends, even if not asthmatic, were also invited to help patients build their support system in following directives regarding medication, proper trigger avoidance, and management tools (i.e. asthma action plan for flare-ups). Our goal as an asthma supportive clinic is to help others breathe easier, and enforcing the fact that both asthma patients and their loved ones are in control and not the other way around.

Have asthma? If so, check out this presentation for more information about how you can live a life at ease with this respiratory disease.