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Adults to help
Adults to Help When your asthma symptoms become a problem, it is important to ask an adult for help. Below is a list of people who can help you manage your asthma. Find where each of these people fit in the puzzle below.
Teacher Mother School Nurse
Father Neighbor Doctor
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You Can Help! Attention, clever kids! This Asthma Magazine reader needs your help. Based on your own experience, do you have any suggestions for her? If you do, write them down and send them to us. Suggestions will be chosen to be published in a future issue of Asthma Magazine.
The worst problem I have with my allergies is headaches. If I don’t take my allergy medicine I get wicked headaches. I can’t even stay at school. Do other people get headaches? Jen, age 13
Asthma Magazine Clever Kids PO Box 473 Hingham, MA 02043 Do you have a problem or question about your asthma? Would you like some help from other kids who have asthma? If so, write down your question (include your name, age, city, and state) and send it to the address above.
In the March/April issue, Margaret writes that not only did her asthma get bad this winter, but she has developed eczema also on her arms, face, and neck. She wonders if anyone else deals with this.
My doctor says I should take my medicine 20 minutes before I play sports. If I do this, I don’t get tired. I also don’t wheeze much. You should try this, it helps.
The worst thing about eczema is that it makes my skin soooo dry. I have to put cream on all the time. Sometimes I don’t even bother going swimming, even though I love it. First, my skin looks really bad in a bathing suit. Second, after I get out of the pool I have to put cream all over myself again. It’s hardly worth it. Eczema is so annoying. Also, it can itch like crazy.
I play soccer, and I get really tired, too. I have the kind of asthma where I don’t wheeze, but I cough. So when I run, the coughing can get really bad, and then I get tired. Usually, if I take my inhaler a while before a game or practice, then it isn’t so bad. But I do get tired, and I think it is just because it is hard to get enough air to really run hard. I try to play defense or goalie if my asthma is not good.
Megan, age 12
Molly, age 9
Zack, age 11 In the July/August issue, a reader writes in that he is not a good runner because he gets tired easily. It doesn’t feel like asthma, but he wonders if it might be and if anyone else has this problem.
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Teacher Mother School Nurse
Father Neighbor Doctor
(see page 39 for answers)
ASTHMA MAGAZINE
to subscribe call 1.800.654.2452
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You Can Help! Attention, clever kids! This Asthma Magazine reader needs your help. Based on your own experience, do you have any suggestions for her? If you do, write them down and send them to us. Suggestions will be chosen to be published in a future issue of Asthma Magazine.
The worst problem I have with my allergies is headaches. If I don’t take my allergy medicine I get wicked headaches. I can’t even stay at school. Do other people get headaches? Jen, age 13
Asthma Magazine Clever Kids PO Box 473 Hingham, MA 02043 Do you have a problem or question about your asthma? Would you like some help from other kids who have asthma? If so, write down your question (include your name, age, city, and state) and send it to the address above.
In the March/April issue, Margaret writes that not only did her asthma get bad this winter, but she has developed eczema also on her arms, face, and neck. She wonders if anyone else deals with this.
My doctor says I should take my medicine 20 minutes before I play sports. If I do this, I don’t get tired. I also don’t wheeze much. You should try this, it helps.
The worst thing about eczema is that it makes my skin soooo dry. I have to put cream on all the time. Sometimes I don’t even bother going swimming, even though I love it. First, my skin looks really bad in a bathing suit. Second, after I get out of the pool I have to put cream all over myself again. It’s hardly worth it. Eczema is so annoying. Also, it can itch like crazy.
I play soccer, and I get really tired, too. I have the kind of asthma where I don’t wheeze, but I cough. So when I run, the coughing can get really bad, and then I get tired. Usually, if I take my inhaler a while before a game or practice, then it isn’t so bad. But I do get tired, and I think it is just because it is hard to get enough air to really run hard. I try to play defense or goalie if my asthma is not good.
Megan, age 12
Molly, age 9
Zack, age 11 In the July/August issue, a reader writes in that he is not a good runner because he gets tired easily. It doesn’t feel like asthma, but he wonders if it might be and if anyone else has this problem.
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ASTHMA MAGAZINE
November/December 2004
Reprint orders: Elsevier, Inc., 11830 Westline Industrial Dr., St. Louis, MO 63146-3318; phone (314) 45-4350. doi: 10.016/j.asthmamag.2004.10.005