'It was just the two of us': Boy dies in mum's arms after suffering massive asthma attack
Instead of watching her son Ethan open gifts, Taranaki mother Rachel Kowalewski spent Christmas planning his funeral.
The cheeky 10-year-old boy suffered a massive asthma attack in Hawera on December 18 and died in her arms two days later in Starship Hospital in Auckland.
"There was nothing anybody could do," she said. "We'd been gardening all day. It was about 8pm. He needed his inhaler, so I gave it to him, and sent him to have a quick shower, but he came out again really fast, his feet were still dirty".....
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Use LTRA tablets over combination therapy to control asthma, says NICE
GP asthma patients struggling to control their symptoms should be given LTRA tablets over combination inhaler therapy to help save the NHS 'millions' a year, according to NICE draft guidance.
GPs should prescribe LTRA (leukotriene receptor antagonist) tablets to patients earlier than they do in current practice, the guidance says.
NICE's latest draft guideline on managing asthma, now up for consultation, recommends that patients newly diagnosed with asthma should be prescribed a short-acting beta2 agonist (SABA) as reliever therapy to use whenever they experience symptoms.....
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How many people have an asthma action plan?
Many people with asthma do not have a current written asthma action plan although it is recommended in national guidelines.
A written asthma action plan, prepared for patients with asthma by a health care professional, can help people with asthma to manage their condition and reduce the severity of acute asthma flare-ups.....
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