Observance of your treatment plan for asthma long term Partners

A strong partnership between you and your health care team is an essential component of effective treatment. Work with your teacher, your doctor, nurse or pharmacist is the best way to develop a treatment plan suited to the variable nature of asthma. After developing the first version of the treatment plan, adjustments will be necessary to ensure that your treatment plan is still relevant.

People with these symptoms should perhaps ask their doctor to reassess their status and make changes to their treatment plan:

* Crisis (or recurrent seizures) wheezing;
* Cough bothersome at night or after exercise;
* Wheezing, chest tightness or cough after exposure to pollutants or allergens in the air;
* Colds "chest" or take more than 10 days to heal;
* Any other issue indicating poorer asthma control (eg. Asthma symptoms during the day or night waking symptoms, activities limited by symptoms, worsening lung function or peak expiratory flow, increase the need for rescue medication and any asthma attack).

You can also ask your team how to make small changes to your action plan for asthma that could help your adherence. You must first know what medications you are supposed to take before we can take them properly! Check with your health care team, particularly if changes were made recently. Remember to take note of these changes (and to write the date) on your written plan of action on asthma as an aide-memoire. You can also get information on how to simplify your treatment (eg. Take it at a specific time or take a combination product instead of several inhalers).