Making sure your child’s asthma is well managed day to day is the best way to keep your child well in the long term and prevent asthma attacks.
General Resources
- What is asthma
- Asthmanauts leaflet: helping explain asthma to my child
- Are my child’s symptoms due to asthma
- What to expect at your child’s annual review
- Personalised Asthma Action Plan
- Personalised Asthma Action Plan (MART)
- How can I tell if my child’s inhaler is empty?
- Smoking and your child’s asthma
- Air pollution and you child’s asthma
Is my child’s asthma well controlled?
Keeping your asthma under good control is the key to preventing asthma attacks and good lung health. Take the Asthma Control Test to find out if your child’s asthma is as well controlled as it could be.
How to use my child’s inhalers
It is important to use your child’s inhaler in the right way. If not, the medicine may not get to the lungs and may mean your child’s asthma is less well controlled. The most commonly used inhaler is a ‘Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) and these must always be taken with a spacer device, no matter how old you are, in order to get the medicine to the lungs. Not all inhaler devices need a spacer, though. Read our easy to follow information sheets for the different inhalers
- How to use my child’s aerochamber spacer with a mask
- How to use my child’s aerochamber spacer with a mouthpiece
- How to use my child’s large volume spacer with a mask
- How to use my child’s large volume spacer
- How to use my child’s accuhaler
- How to use my child’s autohaler
- How to use my child’s Easibreathe
- How to use my child’s Easyhaler
- How to use my child’s turbohaler
- How to use my child’s peak flow meter
- What should my child’s peak flow be?
Inhaler Guides
