Asthma in your Mate - Free program

What's covered in the presentation?

• Asthma in Australia: 1 in 9, can occur at any age, no cure, serous condition, death rate (depending on age of students)
• Famous people with asthma: not letting asthma stop us! Stressing the importance of managing asthma to achieve.
• What is asthma? use of airways models
• Signs & symptoms: identifying asthma in -yourself, family member or mate
• Medications: stress the importance of the reliever medication (blue/grey puffer)
• Puffer & spacer: how and why we use a spacer.

Asthma triggers

• cold/flu -how we can stop the spread of germs at school
• exercise
• other triggers

Asthma Emergency Role Play

• Asthma Emergency Kit (ask if they know were the AEK are kept)
• How we recognise an asthma flare-up? (role play)
• What puffer do we use in an emergency?
• Steps of asthma first aid -who do we tell (teacher/grown up)
• leaving the person alone
• Calling 000 - what we need to tell the ambulance (asthma attack, address etc)

• All students will receive an Asthma In Your Mate certificate