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Managing asthma with the adolescent

M Rich1, L Schneider

  • 1Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Current Opinion in Pediatrics
|August 1, 1996
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Adolescent asthma management requires a comprehensive approach including education, environmental changes, self-monitoring, and medication. This strategy helps adolescents control their asthma, preventing exacerbations and normalizing their lives.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Pulmonology
  • Adolescent Medicine

Background:

  • Asthma is the most common chronic disease in adolescents, with increasing prevalence, morbidity, and mortality.
  • Lifestyle and developmental changes place adolescents at high risk for poor asthma outcomes.
  • Uncontrolled asthma significantly impacts adolescent quality of life.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To outline an effective management strategy for adolescent asthma.
  • To emphasize the importance of a proactive, multi-faceted approach to adolescent asthma control.

Main Methods:

  • Implementing a management approach centered on education, environmental modification, self-monitoring, and medication.
  • Utilizing step therapy guided by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) asthma severity classification.

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  • Employing clinician-patient comanagement for asthma control.

    • Main Results:

    • Adolescents can gain control over their asthma through structured management.
    • Step therapy effectively uses inhaled anti-inflammatory agents for maintenance and bronchodilators for rescue.
    • This approach prevents exacerbations and allows for timely intervention.

    Conclusions:

    • Adolescent asthma is manageable through a combination of education, environmental control, self-monitoring, and appropriate medication.
    • Clinician-patient comanagement is key to normalizing the lives of adolescents with asthma.
    • A structured, evidence-based approach can mitigate the impact of asthma on adolescent well-being.