Asthma: A Breathtaking Experience

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐦𝐚 𝐃𝐚𝐲 🫁

Although asthma cannot be cured, it is possible to manage asthma to reduce and prevent asthma attacks, also called episodes or exacerbations.

GINA has chosen ‘𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦’ as the theme for the 2022 World Asthma Day.

There are a number of gaps in asthma care which require intervention in order to reduce preventable suffering as well as the costs incurred by treating uncontrolled asthma.

Current gaps in asthma care include:
📌in equal access to diagnosis and treatment (medicine)
📌between care for different socioeconomic, ethnic and age groups
📌between wealthy and poorer communities and countries;
📌in communication and care across the primary/secondary/tertiary care interface
📌in communication and education provided for people with asthma, (quality of asthma care plans vs)
📌in asthma knowledge and asthma awareness between health care providers
📌in prioritization between asthma and other long term conditions
📌between prescribing inhalers and monitoring adherence and ability to use these devices;
📌exist for the general public’s (non-asthmatics) and health care professional’s awareness and understanding that asthma is a chronic (not acute) disease.
📌between scientific evidence and actual delivery of care for people with asthma.

Addressing these gaps can be partially achieved through provision of the annually updated evidence based GINA strategy documents.

However, implementing recommendations based on scientific evidence is challenging across the globe. Not all local solutions are applicable globally and similarly global recommendations may not be applicable locally.

The challenge posed by this year’s theme is for international respiratory communities to work together with colleagues, patients and health care providers to identify and close the gaps in asthma care and to help implement and share innovative solutions locally and globally.

📚Source: https://ginasthma.org

Beat Asthma everyday 💪🏻

Children with asthma need an asthma management plan. The goal of the management plan is to prevent asthma episodes and help your child keep their asthma under control. https://www.aafa.org/asthma-treatment/

A treatment plan includes:

👉 Learning your child’s triggers and help avoid them
👉 Giving allergy and asthma medicines as directed by the doctor
👉 Tracking their asthma and recognizing early signs that it may be getting worse
👉 Knowing what to do when asthma is getting worse by having an Asthma Action Plan

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The Philippine Red Cross appeals for donations 📲💳 in helping the affected communities in the and regions as super typhoon has devastated many parts of the country.

PRC will not stop monitoring the situation 24/7 so we can send help to our kababayans 🤝

LOOK: This boy in Cebu who was suffering from asthma attack finally gets to use his nebulizer after plugging the device at a mall. His mother tells The Freeman they went from one establishment to another in the hope of finding electricity after until they reached SM City Cebu. | via Decemay Padilla / Photo from Jene Sumanting