Pediatric Asthma Treatment
If it’s correctly managed, most kids with asthma can live healthy lives full of running, sports and play.
Our team works with each patient and his or her family to understand any environmental or activity triggers that may be making a child’s asthma worse and then develops a plan to control them. We educate patients and families on how to manage asthma at home, including flare-ups and how to monitor asthma severity over time.
We treat children with all levels of asthma — from mild to severe cases that sometimes require hospitalization. Our team has extensive experience treating critically ill asthma patients in the intensive care unit and preparing them to manage their condition after leaving the hospital.
Asthma treatment depends on a variety of individual factors, and we work with families to create custom treatment plans for each patient. Depending on the patient, asthma treatments can include traditional medication, environmental changes and integrative medicine — all designed to effectively control asthma symptoms with the fewest possible side effects.
Pediatric asthma treatment with an integrative approach
Integrative medicine uses a combination of conventional and unconventional asthma treatments to improve health and asthma symptoms and even reduce the need for traditional medicine in some cases.
Regardless of which integrative therapy you’re considering, the best first step is to talk over your options with a pediatric asthma specialist, who can discuss the risks and benefits of each option. While some high-quality studies have shown that certain non-conventional treatments are effective, others have shown mixed results, and some complementary treatments do not lend themselves well to traditional medical research.
Here are four of the most popular integrative asthma treatments to discuss with your doctor.
