The #AskAboutAsthma campaign is focused on encouraging kids and teens, and their families and people involved in their care, to take simple and effective measures to help them control their asthma.
Asthma should not limit children and young people’s lives in any way. The following four steps should help ensure good control and no symptoms:
- get an asthma action plan in place.
- understand how to use inhalers correctly.
- schedule an asthma review every year and after every attack.
- consider air pollution and its impact on lung health – every asthma conversation should include indoor and outdoor air pollution.
This is the eighth year the #AskAboutAsthma campaign has been running. It comes at a time of year when asthma attacks increase as students go back to school following the summer holidays.
You can find more information on our webpage about living with asthma and there is additional support for parents on the Healthier Together website.