Asthma is a chronic condition that is treatable and controllable
but not curable. Sufferers often describe the feelings of an
asthmatic attack as a metal band squeezing their chest. The
traditional model of managing patient care doesn’t work for
complicated chronic problems like asthma. A more creative way of
management is to provide a disease manager or asthma coach who
helps a roster of children with asthma through their treatment
plans. Millions of American children suffer from asthma and only
within the past 10 years have physicians found adequate ways of
controlling this condition. Unfortunately both children and
adults today dont always get the right treatment because many
people don’t realize that asthma requires two types of
medication to adequately control the condition. Think of the
lungs as being too irritable and when they are exposed to a
trigger, such as pet dander or smoke, the muscle fibers around
the bronchioles constrict causing the wheezing sound that is so
indicative of asthma. Rescue drug