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MEDICINES FOR ASTHMA

MEDICINES FOR ASTHMA. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. TODAY’S DISCUSSION. Asthma Rescue vs. Control Medications Using Medications Peak Flow Meters Action Plans Avoiding Triggers. WHAT IS ASTHMA?.

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MEDICINES FOR ASTHMA

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  1. MEDICINES FOR ASTHMA Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

  2. TODAY’S DISCUSSION • Asthma • Rescue vs. Control Medications • Using Medications • Peak Flow Meters • Action Plans • Avoiding Triggers

  3. WHAT IS ASTHMA? • Asthma is a condition that affects the small tubes that carry air into and out of the lungs. • Asthma is an airway disease.

  4. WHAT IS AN ASTHMA ATTACK? • When asthma is triggered, muscles in the walls of the airways start to tighten, • The lining of the airway becomes swollen, • And mucus builds up and gets in the way of the air that should reach the lungs.

  5. Normal Asthma

  6. Control (Prevention) vs. Rescue TYPES OF MEDICINES:

  7. MEDICINES FORCONTROL (PREVENTION) Advair QVAR Pulmicort Singulair

  8. Laitinen LA

  9. MEDICINE FOR RESCUE “There can be only one Rescue medicine” (Albuterol has a lot of names) Albuterol (Ventolin, Proventil, Combivent)

  10. USING MEDICATIONS: INHALERS & SPACERS

  11. 2. CLICK 3. INHALE USING MEDICATIONS: ADVAIR 1. OPEN

  12. PEAK FLOW METERS

  13. ASTHMA ACTION PLAN: 5+ years old

  14. AVOIDING TRIGGERS

  15. AVOIDING TRIGGERS

  16. SUMMARY • Asthma • Rescue vs. Control Medications • Using Medications • Peak Flow Meters • Action Plans • Avoiding Triggers

  17. THE END! THANK YOU!

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