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Severe Signs & Symptoms
Asthma Online Training Slide 8
Again, quick-relief medications are used in the event of an asthma attack emergency.
How might one know when a child is experiencing an 鈥渁sthma attack?鈥� Well, when signs and symptoms worsen to the point that one starts to really struggle with getting air into the lungs then that person can be considered to be having an 鈥渁sthma attack.鈥� An asthma attack can be a life-threatening emergency.
Signs to look for:
What You Need For School
Asthma Online Training Slide 14
Occasionally physicians will want students to use a rescue inhaler more frequently than twice per week during a short term respiratory infection. However, if it is in the absence of a physician鈥檚 note, than that student does not have good asthma management and should be referred back to their physician.
What Students need for School
Medication Management
Asthma Online Training Slide 6
In order to keep asthma signs and symptoms under control doctors often times prescribe asthma medications to help control asthma signs and symptoms. The medications cannot and will not cure asthma, but they will help control asthma from getting worse if taken properly as prescribed by the doctor.
鈥淎sthma medicines come in two types鈥攓uick relief and long-term control. Quick-relief medicines control the symptoms of an asthma attack鈥� (鈥淢anagement and treatment:,鈥� 2009).