Managing Your Asthma: Asthma
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Managing your asthma
In asthma treatment, one size does not fit all. Each person with asthma requires individual treatment. Choosing a treatment appropriate for you depends on an accurate assessment of how severe your asthma is.
Because symptoms may vary from week to week or month to month, a key part of managing your asthma is to assess your symptoms over time. When you visit your doctor for a checkup, he or she gets a snapshot of the severity of your asthma based on how you are doing at that moment. What the doctor needs is more like a motion picture, based on your experiences with asthma 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can provide the equivalent of a motion picture by the way you describe your symptoms since you last saw the doctor.
It's helpful to take a step back once in a while and assess how your asthma has been for the past few weeks to months. This will provide you and your doctor with information that might lead to adjustments in your asthma treatment program.
| Last updated: | September 27, 2007 |
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