Provide care to your child

Asthma is very unpredictable. It can show once, or it can show every single day, with various intensity. Sometimes it got great impact to the whole health of the child, so when this state occur, immediate hospitalization is best way to prevent further negative consequences. It needs professional care and treatment. Usually attacks start overnight, but that’s not a general rule since attack can strike any time. Attack can last minutes, hours or maybe days. That’s why asthma needs permanent and serious monitoring and immediate treatment if needed. Any asthma symptoms like cough or shortage of air should be prevented. It is necessity to accomplish normal function to whole pulmonary system. Normal daily level of physical activity should be maintained. There is always a need of keeping in near vicinity some quick and effective measurement instrument and medication given by doctors.

There should be constant and frequent visits to hospital for monitoring asthma progression and therapy success percentage. This monitoring should provide results about asthma symptoms, function of whole pulmonary system and pharmacotherapy success. There also should be recommendation about physic activities in near future, with great deal of preciousness.

State of pulmonary system is measured by Spirometry tests and monitored by air peak flow.

Peak Flow Meter use

To get visual results if air flows like it should, trough lungs, peak flow meter is a must. When asthma attack appears, flow of air through lungs is reduced. Pick flow meter can tell the patient is there any lowering of the air flow, before any asthma symptom appear. That is perfect time to take medicine ordered by doctor, and there is great chance that asthma strike will be stopped in time. Using this instrument is similar like using blood pressure meter from people suffering from high blood pressure.

Results given by Peak flow meter can show the medical stuff how and why asthma get worse, giving picture of whole treatment plan. Doctor can decide to intensify or to cut medical prescriptions, or make some adjustments and changing’s in case something is wrong.

Daily use of peak meter showed great help in case of patients who must take daily dose of medicine. Any childabove 5 years can use this instrument without any limitations.

First pick flow meter indicator should be on the bottom of the scale. Patient should stand and be in calm position. Then he or she should take deep portion of breath in order to fill lungs with breath. Mouth piece should be placed in mouth with closed lips. Tongue should be in position not to interfere with air flow. Then in a single blow, patient should blow out fast and severe. Results from the scale should be written down and archived in proper manner. Sometimes, just to be sure that given result is the right one, it’s good to repeat measurement one or two more times. If everything was OK all 3 results will be similar. Archiving and proper handling of these results is very important for latter valuation.