The goals of asthma care/management

The goals of asthma care/management include:

• Achieve and maintain control of symptoms
• Prevent asthma exacerbations
• Maintain lung function as close to normal as possible
• Maintain normal level of activity including exercise
• Avoid adverse effects of asthma medications
• Prevent development of irreversible airflow limitation
• Maintain normal growth velocity in children
• Prevent asthma mortality
MANAGEMENT OF ASTHMA IN CHILDREN
1. Avoiding the contact with allergen. If it is impossible, the specific hyposensitization with
standard allergens should be performed. It is rather effective in case of monoallergy, in
intermittent and mild persistent asthma, in remission phase.
2. Elimination of trigger factors (rational job placement, changing the residence,
psychological and physical adaptation, careful drug using) is the second condition for
successful asthma treatment.
3. Optimally selected medical care is the base of asthma management.
4. Combined inhaled drugs (corticosteroids with b2-agonists) (nebulasers, turbuhalers,
spasers, spinhalers, sinchroners) enhance the effectiveness of asthma therapy.