As part of your daily asthma self-management plan, your doctor may recommend that you use a hand-held device called a peak flow meter to monitor how well your lungs are working.
Medications*
Your doctor will prescribe specific medications for you according to the severity of your asthma. In general, there are two types of medications: quick-relief medications and long-term medications. Most treatment plans use at least one medicine of each type to relieve and control asthma symptoms.
Asthma treatment includes: avoiding things that bring on your asthma symptoms or make your symptoms worse, using asthma medication, and monitoring your asthma so that you are able recognize symptoms to prevent an asthma attack early on.
Is It Possible?
Currently, asthma cannot be prevented, though its symptoms can be controlled to the point where a person can live a relatively normal life.