Self-managing
Written by Clive Chung on 3:09 AMFirst and foremost you should work out with your doctor or asthma nurse a series of steps to take manage the condition. Step one will be the normal routine where, for example, you use your preventer inhaler twice a day and your reliever as and when necessary but no more than four times a day. If you start getting symptoms or your peal-flow reading shows a deterioration and then go on to step two in the management plan worked out with your health professional. This may mean increasing he dose of your inhaled preventer. How much you increase it by and for how long is something else you will need to have planned. At this stage you are very likely to have got your asthma under control, but if you haven't you will move on to step three. This may mean taking steroid tablets or calling the doctor or ambulance or both. Again, you will have planned beforehand what you do under these circumstances.
The point is that this self-management plan should be tailor-made for you and aimed to cope with the condition according to the level of severity currently being presented. However, there are guidelines which have been produced to standardize the treatment of asthma, both in the doctor's surgery and in hospital.
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