Your child will need to return to make sure the medicine is working and that his or her symptoms are being controlled. Your child may be referred to an asthma specialist. Bring a diary of your child's peak flow numbers, symptoms, and possible triggers to the follow-up appointments. Write...
ASTHMA PEAK FLOW DIARY IMPROVES CAREdoi:10.1016/S1081-1206(10)63469-2Thomas F PlautAnnals of Allergy, Asthma & ImmunologyT.F. Plaut. Asthma Peak Flow Diary Improves Care. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunol- ogy, 76:476-478, 1996....
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It provides guidance on confirming the diagnosis of asthma using spirometry or peak expiratory flow. GINA recommends that all adults, adolescents and most children with asthma should receive inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)-containing therapy to reduce the risk of severe exacerbations, either taken regularly...
Bring a diary of your child's peak flow numbers, symptoms, and possible triggers to the follow-up appointments. Write down your questions so you remember to ask them during your child's visit.© Copyright Merative 2024 Information is for End User's use only and may not be sold, ...
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An alternative method is to instruct the patient to record peak expiratory flow (PEF) each morning and evening over a 2-week period in a diary or using an electronic peak flow meter. PEF should be measured three times on each occasion, and only the highest reading used. Diurnal PEF ...
We defined 2 types of episodes of poor asthma control derived from the daily diaries: an episode of poor asthma control type 1 was a decrease of greater than 30% in morning peak flow rate from personal best (assessed during run-in) for 2 consecutive days, addition of an oral corticosteroid...
32,37 Interestingly, an association between better adherence and changes in asthma quality of life and peak expiratory flow was only found when adherence was operationalised as both time of use and inhalation technique, and not for time of use only.32 These developments illustrate that some of ...
Participants will be provided with a salbutamol inhaler (Ventolin 5 mg/ml, GlaxoSmithKline, UK), to be used as required during this period to ease coughing until the treatment period begins. In the 2-week run-in period, the participants will be required to record the severity of their ...