Treatment

• What is bronchial thermoplasty?

  Thin flexible tube passed down throat

  Radiation heats muscles surrounding bronchi to stop them narrower

  Reduces airway remodelling
• What is the non-pharmacological management of asthma?

  Avoid contact with triggers/allergens

  Exercise

  Smoking cessation

  Asthma self management programmes

  Annual asthma review

  Annual flu jab

  Bronchial thermoplasty
• What is the reliever inhaler for asthma?

  Salbutamol - blue inhaler
• What is the preventer inhaler for asthma?

  ICS - usually budesonide

  Brown/orange inhaler
• Why is a nebuliser used?

  Smaller particle size

  Will get deeper into the lungs & faster
• What are the long term effects of steroids for asthma?

  Oral thrush (due to steroid in oral cavity)
• What is the length & dose of treatment of prednisolone?

  40 mg daily for 5 days
• What drugs are cautioned in people with asthma?

  NSAID

  Beta blocker