Sorvino Asthma Foundation: Children & Asthma

If you or your child has asthma, you may be bothered by these things that do not bother other people.

	Smoke		Exercise
	Animals		Mold
	Dust		Pollen
	Roaches		Pollution
	Colds

Asthma episodes come and go, but the lungs stay sensitive to the things that cause asthma episodes. Preventive medicines can help, but you need to do more. Figure out what things start the asthma episodes. Talk with your doctor and write down what you or your child did and where you were before each asthma episode. The more you do to protect yourself and your child, the fewer asthma episodes you or your child will have and the less asthma medicine you will need.

Click here for Asthma In Children Fact Sheet

You should control your asthma. Don't let your asthma control you. You should expect to:

	participate fully in all activities
	not miss school or work because of asthma
	have no severe asthma symptoms
	sleep through the night
	have no need to be hospitalized or go to the emergency room because of asthma

The New York City Childhood Asthma Initiative is a citywide effort to reduce illness and death from childhood asthma in New York City by working to strengthen the ability of families, schools, communities, health care institutions and city government to control and prevent asthma. The Initiative works to:

promote improved family management of asthma
promote the practice of state-of-the-art medical care
help families to reduce exposure to asthma triggers in both homes and communities
monitor and track the number of people with asthma
increase community awareness of asthma

Childhood Asthma Initiative
NYC Department of Health
40 Worth Street / CHW Room 1607 New York, NY 10013
Asthma Action Line, dial toll-free: 1-877-ASTHMA-0 or 1-877-278-4620