Special topics

Asthma Essentials

These leaflets summarise essential information on a variety of topics related to asthma. You can order them from this website by following the links below:

• How to get your asthma under control
• Managing your asthma
• Treatment options - stepping up/stepping down
• Complementary treatments & therapies
• Pregnancy
• When your asthma gets worse
• Indoor asthma triggers
• Outdoor asthma triggers
• Asthma attacks and emergency care
• Asthma medicines
• Childcare

Factfiles

These factfiles cover a range of topics. Click on the factfile you need to download:

Triggers

• Asthma & altitude (540 kb)
• Exercise & asthma (570 kb)
• Food reactions & asthma (554 kb)
• Housing location & asthma (541 kb)
• Indoor environment & asthma (68 kb)
• Low Allergen Gardens Guide (87 kb)

Symptoms and treatments

• Nebulisers (86 kb)
• Non-drug approaches to managing your asthma (467 kb)
• Prescription charges (553 kb)
• Severe asthma symptoms and ways to control them (73 kb)

 Finances and financial assistance

• Financial assistance & asthma (542 kb)
• Solving housing problems (611 kb)