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Getting Through Wisconsin's Allergy Season

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014   

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - May is Asthma Awareness Month, the time of year when people with the condition begin to suffer.

"You have pollens - for instance, you have your tree pollens right now are high; then we'll go into our grass pollens, and as summer goes on we get ragweed, as well as people spending time outside," said respiratory therapist Rhonda Duerst, who chairs the Wisconsin Asthma Coalition. "There could be increased mold levels with the moisture that's outside."

In Wisconsin, more than 375,000 adults and more than 100,000 children have asthma.

It's important for people with asthma to have an Asthma Action Plan and for their family members to be familiar with it, Duerst said.

"They partner with their provider to develop an asthma action plan," she said. "It outlines what the person should do when their asthma symptoms arise so that they can treat them early, manage the symptoms, and hopefully prevent a hospitalization or ER visit."

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that cannot be cured, but can be controlled.

The Wisconsin Asthma Coalition is led and managed by Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin. This is the group's 20th year, and Duerst said real progress has been made.

"Over the last ten years, the number of people with asthma has increased," she said, "although through our first 10 years of work through the Wisconsin Asthma Coalition our rate of asthma hospitalizations has decreased by 24 percent and the rate of asthma emergency room visits has decreased by 14 percent."

Duerst said it's important for people with asthma to take all their medications as prescribed by their doctor. Prescription-assistance programs are available for those who have trouble affording the medications. A list of prescription assistance programs is available on the Wisconsin Asthma Coalition web page, chawisconsin.org.


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