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Whether you've recently been diagnosed with asthma or lived with it for years, managing your asthma can help you live a healthy, active life. But you have to follow your treatment plan as developed by your healthcare professional.
By keeping a daily journal, you can track your good and bad days, your triggers, and your symptoms. You and your healthcare professional can use this information to optimize your asthma treatment plan. Your journal is a valuable asthma management resource.
Keep in mind that uncontrolled asthma may lead to loss of lung function and structural changes, which are indicators of permanent damage. That means that you could experience more severe symptoms more often. So use your journal and follow your asthma treatment plan to help reduce your reliance on a quick-relief (rescue) inhaler, and have more days without asthma symptoms.
Download and print this journal to get you started.
But if you only fill out your journal sporadically, you won't have the data necessary to spot the trends in your health that you can effectively manage together with your healthcare professional. Here are 3 tips for keeping a successful journal:
- Make a journal entry every day.
Try to make writing in your journal a habit. Keep it in the same place and take even just a few seconds to make an entry every day.
- Enter as much information as possible.
It's virtually impossible to have too much information on your asthma. Remember to circle all your healthcare professional's appointments and note when you should refill your prescriptions.
- Keep on writing.
If you miss a day or so of writing in your journal, start up again. The goal is to make it a habit, but some information on your asthma is better than none at all.
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