So You Have Asthma: A Guide for Patients and Their Families

Your one-stop source for the latest information on controlling your asthma, this guide offers practical suggestions to help you manage this chronic disease. In an easy-to-read format, it offers asthma basics, lists of asthma triggers and how to avoid them, how asthma medicines work and how to take them, tools to help keep asthma under control, and how to communicate with your health care providers to make asthma management part of your everyday life. The guide also includes an asthma action plan to fill in, an asthma assessment checklist, and a list of additional resources.