This pdf material will help you and your health-care provider (doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant) plan ways to control your asthma. Why? Because with good treatment, almost all people with asthma can live normal, active lives. Prevention is the key. With a few lifestyle changes and medicine, you can learn to prevent serious asthma problems. Together with your provider, you will learn how to reach this goal.
Asthma is a common condition with increasing prevalence. This new edition of the highly regarded ABC of Asthma has been thoroughly revised with reference to the latest British Thoracic Society guidelines on the management of asthma in children and adults. It covers the advances in practice and methods, with a new emphasis on delivery systems, self-dose assessment and delivery of care with different pharmacological approaches.
Asthma At Your Fingertips is a practical, useful guide on the everyday issues of living with asthma. Experienced medical experts have collected the most commonly asked questions they encountered with their patients and answered them in simple, non-medical terms, exploring everything from medical treatments and alternative therapies, to the effects of diet, pollution and pregnancy. This book is essential reading for those with asthma and for their family and friends.
If you suffer from asthma, or have a friend or relative who does, this book offers help. The only book to provide the doctor’s and patient’s view, 100 Questions & Answers About Asthma gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, coping strategies -- for both patient and family, sources of support, and much more. Written by a world-class asthma expert and featuring insider’s advice from an actual patient, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this debilitating disease.
The new edition of this best selling ABC has been updated to include the new British Thoracic Society guidelines published in 2003 on the management of asthma. Concise and highly illustrated, the book includes chapters on leukotriene antagonists and long acting beta agonists.
