My Action Asthma Plan

When my asthma is When my asthma is When my asthma is How to recognise

WELL CONTROLLED GETTING WORSE SEVERE LIFE-THREATENING ASTHM
 No regular wheeze, or cough or chest  At the first sign of worsening asthma  Need reliever puffer every 3 hours or more Dial 000 for an ambulance and/or
tightness at night time, on wakng or during symptoms associated with a cold often from a mobile phone if you have a
the day the following danger signs:

 Able to take part in normal physical activity
without wheeze, cough or chest tightness
 Need reliever medication less than three
times a week (except if it is used before
exercise)
 Waking from sleep due to coughing,
wheezing or chest tightness
 Using reliever puffer more than 3 times a
week (not including before exercise)
 Increasing wheezing, choughing, chest
tighness
 Difficulty with normal activity
 Waking each night and most mornings with
wheezing, coughing or chest tightness
 extreme difficulty breathing
 little or no improvement from relie
puffer
 lips turn blue
and follow the Asthma First Aid Plan
while waiting for ambulance to arrive

 Feel that asthma is out of control

 Peak Flow above *  Peak Flow * between  Peak Flow * A serious asthma attack is also
indicated by:
 symptoms gettingn worse quickly
What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?
 severe shortness of breath or diff
in speaking
Continue my usual treatment as follows Increase my treatment as follows: Start Oral Prednisolone (or other steroid) and  you are feeling frightened or pani
increase my treatment as follows:
 Peak Flow * below
PREVENTER Should any of these occur, follow the
Asthma First Aid Plan below.
Asthma First Aid Plan
RELIEVER 1 Sit upright and stay calm.
2 Take 4 separate puffs of a reliever
(one puff at a time) via a spacer d
COMBINATION MEDICINE Just use the puffer on its own if yo
don’t have a spacer. Take 4 breath
from the spacer after each puff.
Always carry my releiver puffer See my doctor to talk about my asthma See my doctor for advice. 3 Wait 4 minutes. If there is no
getting worse. improvement, take another 4 puffs
Doctor:Dr Prem Saranathan Ph: 0399237888 Signature: 4 If little or no improvement CALL A
AMBULANCE IMMEDIATELY (DIA
Parent/Carer: Ph: and/or 112 from mobile phone) an
that you are having an asthma att
Keep taking 4 puffs every 4 minut
the ambulance arrives
See your doctor immediately after a
serious asthma attack.
Name: Date: 23/11/2016 Best Peak Flow: Next Dr's Appointment:
* Not recommended for children under 12 years