Living with asthma
Find hints and tips on how best to manage your asthma through the use of materials you may receive from your GP such as a peak flow diary and self-management plan. Along with information on what may trigger your asthma and tools to help you reduce the effect this could have on your everyday life.
Keeping a Peak Flow Diary
Your peak flow rate is a way to see how well your lungs are working, based on how forcefully you can blow into the peak flow meter.A Peak Flow Diary helps you to keep track of your asthma, because your symptoms and peak flow readings will generally correlate.
COVID-19: Managing your Asthma Symptoms
There’s no escaping the fact that world has changed, and we’ll likely be living differently for a little while longer. For you, managing an existing condition on top of navigating these different circumstances might be challenging or something that’s on your mind. That’s why we curated our top articles to help you manage your asthma […]
Asthma and COVID-19: Understanding the Guidelines
When the news of the COVID-19 pandemic broke in Ireland, we were glued to the news bulletins trying to gather as much information as possible about the virus. We needed to know what the symptoms were, how the virus spread and what we needed to do to minimise infection. Among the many announcements, “at risk” […]
Video: 3 Ways to Manage Asthma Symptoms Outdoors
Cróna enjoys an active lifestyle and is a regular gym goer. She enjoys yoga and Pilates too. Crónaloves to travel and visit new countries during the school holidays. The lifestyle is only possible when her asthma is consistently managed. Find out more information and read other articles written by Cróna here Explore the respiratory section […]