Health & Wellness

Asthma - Holidays & 2024 

Summer holidays are an important time for kids with asthma. 

During all the festivities, please don’t forget to keep up your child's asthma management and medicine as prescribed. Good asthma management over the holidays means less time off school when kids return in the new year, and less time off work for you.  

To make sure your child stays as healthy as possible over the break and into 2024, you can take the following steps: 

• Check your child’s medication to make sure they’re still in date.  
• Keep using your child’s preventer medicine as directed over the summer holidays, even if they’re feeling well.   
• If you’re leaving the house or going on holiday, make sure you pack your child’s asthma medicine(s) and a spacer.  
• Book an Asthma Review with your doctor to get an updated written Asthma Action Plan during the holidays - you'll need this for Term 1 2024. Book in early as doctors can have limited appointments over the Christmas period. 
• Use Asthma Australia's School’s Checklist for parents and carers: https://asthma.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AA_BTS2022_Asthma-Checklist__digital.pdf 
• Asthma Action Plan - link

When to Have an Asthma Review

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