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How is Asthma Treated?

You and your doctor together can decide about your treatment goals and what you need to do to control your asthma. Asthma treatment includes:

  • Avoiding things that bring on your asthma symptoms or make symptoms worse. Doing so can reduce the amount of medicine you need to control your asthma. Allergy medicine and allergy shots in some cases may help your asthma.
  • Using asthma medicines.
With proper treatment, you should ideally have these results:
  • Your asthma should be controlled.
  • You should be free of asthma symptoms.
  • You should have fewer attacks.
  • You should need to use short-acting bronchodilators less often.
  • You should be able to do normal activities without having symptoms.
Your doctor will create an action plan for your asthma. Your action plan will tell you what medications you should take and other things you should do to keep your asthma under control.

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Source: NHLBI




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