Our Asthma Ambassadors!

Today our Asthma Ambassadors talked about the different types of inhalers that they use every day. We discussed the difference between preventer/controller inhalers and reliever inhalers and how each inhaler works. We talked about asthma triggers. The older boys and girls watched an 'Iggy and the Inhalers' episode about asthma triggers. We talked about any other triggers of asthma that were not included in the video. The children created trigger monsters to represent the different asthma triggers - pollen, dust, cold air, exercise, fumes, smoke, pet hair and having a flu/cold. We talked about how asthma is different for everyone and how something that can be a trigger for one person, may not be for another person. We also spoke about how asthma won't get in our way as long as we take our inhalers as our doctors told us to.