Asthma Coach

Asthma is a chronic condition that is treatable and controllable but definitely not curable. Sufferers often describe the feeling as a metal band squeezing their chest. The traditional model of managing patient care doesn't work for complicated chronic problems like asthma. A more creative way of management is to provide a disease manager or who helps a roster of children with asthma through their treatment plans.

Millions of American children suffer from asthma and only within the past 10 years have physicians found adequate ways of controlling this condition. Unfortunately both children and adults today dont always get the right treatment because many people don't realize that asthma requires two types of medication to adequately control the condition.

Think of the lungs as being too irritable and when they are exposed to a trigger such as pet dander or smoke the muscle fibers around the bronchioles constrict causing the wheezing sound that is so indicative of asthma. Rescue drugs are used to control the constriction and make the muscles relax.

The bronchioles or tiny airways can also become swollen which are triggered from other types of substances. Rescue drugs dont fix this type of problem. Instead controllers like inhaled steroids or other anti-inflammatory drugs are used to decrease the inflammation and improve the oxygen exchange.

Studies show that patients do not always receive the correct medication or the correct types of medication. In a 2000 study published in Pediatrics researchers found that only one in four children with asthma received controller medications.

And in a study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine researchers reported that only half of the doctors gave their patients written asthma plans and only 40% prescribed controllers.

Even when children are prescribed controllers, according to a 2002 Pediatrics paper, only half received them because the parents weren't giving them. Some parents are fearful that the medications are habit forming or addictive. While others fear the children will become used to the medication and it wont work anymore.

One of the ways that asthma sufferers are able to learn to manage their illness is to use an asthma management plan. The written management plan should include all known triggers to the asthma, the normal peak flow values, normal end expiratory volume values, controlling and rescue medications, activity limitations, emergency phone numbers and the signatures of the sufferer and the parent if that is appropriate.

Another option for management are es, offered by a growing number of health plans. An is often employed by insurance companies and health plans to help decrease their costs for unplanned emergency room and urgent care visits.

The regularly reviews a patients history to ensure the right medications are prescribed and being given. They coordinate with the doctor to arrange follow up visits and contacts the families to assure that the treatment is progressing forward.

The use of an has been shown to decrease costs to the insurance company and to the patient. Patients have decreased number of emergency room visits and office visits to treat asthma attacks. An ounce of prevention is truly worth the pound of cure. Asthmatics who avoid their triggers will often find they use less rescue medications and are under better control. And an can help provide all of that.

BioVent is a natural, safe and proven remedy that is a unique combination of herbal and homeopathic ingredients to assist with the management of chronic asthma, support of bronchial and respiratory health for easy breathing, and the control and prevention of asthma attacks.

Used daily, it can improve respiratory functioning and health, reduce the incidence and severity of asthma attacks and strengthen the immune system. May be combined with BronchoSoothe.  BioVent was formulated by a clinical psychologist and is pharmaceutically manufactured to the highest standards.

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