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- Controlling and Managing Children with Asthma
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- Signs of asthma in children are:
- - Breathlessness
- - Coughing, particularly at night
and after exercise
- - Tight feeling in the chest
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- Your doctor, nurse or asthma educator can discuss these symptoms
with you. It is a good idea to write a diary of when the symptoms
occur. The information obtained over 2-4 weeks will help clarify
whether your child has asthma and it will also provide the basis for
preparing an Asthma Management Plan. An Asthma Management Plan is a
written plan agreed to by both health professional and the patient
(in this case the parent). It gives a step wise approach of how to
recognise and treat deteriorating asthma.
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- For full details and to obtain a free copy of meterial go to
www.asthmanz.co.nz
. Download the Symptom Diary and Child Asthma Plan under heading
'Management Plans'. A booklet called "Children and asthma"
is available free to download under 'Asthma Info', which has further
valuable information.
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- Acknowledgement: We would to thank the Asthma and Respiratory
Foundation for this article. Their website address is
www.asthmanz.co.nz
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