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Crisis plan must for asthma kids

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-10-15 08:07

Asthmatic children should always have an emergency plan with them containing instructions on what to do if they have an asthma attack, according to the Heidenheim-based German Pneumologists Association (BdP).

Such a plan, the group says, would enable the child to receive proper help even if he or she was unable to speak. The child's teachers should also have a copy, the BdP adds.

Ideally, the plan would list the child's known asthma triggers as well as which medicines should be taken when and how, and who, at what telephone number, should be notified in case of emergency.

The BdP warns that asthmatic children's respiratory problems could worsen after the summer holidays because of renewed close contact with other schoolchildren, and also because of increased time indoors, which raises the risk of viral and bacterial infections.