About this ebook
This book will answer questions you need to know the answers to like; Do I have asthma? How do I know when and how to use my medicine? How do I use the different devices the asthma medicines come with? What is a peak flow meter and why do I need one? Will I grow out of this? Can I still engage in my favorite sport? How does my medicine work? What’s happening inside my lungs when I’m having an asthma attack?
First, we’ll discuss exactly what asthma is and why it’s dangerous. Various definitions of asthma have been used over the years but as the medical community has learned more about the disease, the definition has been made more and more accurate. In this book, we’ll explain how your various asthma medicines work by pointing to their place of action within the current asthma definition.
We’ll discuss at length how the various asthma devices are used and point out the things you should always do and the things that you should never do. We’ll explain what a trigger is and how to avoid them. We’ll make this often complicated subject of asthma a simple matter that you’ll easily be able to understand and remember.
About the author
In the early eighties, Winfred attended the College of Health Related Professions where he studied Respiratory Therapy. He finished his class with honors and settled at a children's hospital in Arkansas where he manned the Emergency Department for over thirty-five years. He has seen and assisted in countless asthma cases where a more robust asthma education might have been the difference between life and death.
In many respects, this book represents a distillation of Winfred’s decades of experience now being made available to the asthma community.
