Pedemy · For parents
Asthma care organizer and symptom diary
Organize notes from the clinician’s action plan, review inhaler technique and record symptoms for follow-up. This organizer does not choose medicines, calculate doses or assess asthma control.
Use these notes with your child’s clinician. This tool does not diagnose illness, prescribe treatment or confirm that home care is safe.
Severe breathing symptoms: get emergency help
Call local emergency services now for severe or rapidly worsening breathing difficulty, inability to speak or feed because of breathlessness, blue or gray lips, marked pulling in around the ribs or neck, unusual drowsiness or confusion, or an attack not improving with the prescribed reliever. Follow the emergency steps in the child’s asthma action plan while help is coming. Do not delay for this diary.
Contact the asthma clinician promptly
New or ongoing wheeze, breathing difficulty, frequent night waking, reduced activity or needing reliever medicine more often than the action plan allows needs prompt medical advice. Follow the existing plan; arrange urgent assessment for current breathing symptoms. Severe symptoms or failure of the reliever require emergency help.
Your entries stay in this open page and disappear when it is reloaded or closed. Print a copy if needed. Avoid names and identifying details.
Care reminders
- Reliever medicines treat symptoms quickly; controller treatment helps prevent symptoms and attacks. Some prescribed plans use one specific combination inhaler for both roles. Confirm each medicine’s role and exact instructions with the clinician; do not swap inhalers or change doses using this page.
- Use a spacer or holding chamber only with a compatible metered-dose inhaler. Dry-powder and breath-actuated inhalers have different instructions. Ask a clinician or pharmacist to demonstrate the exact device, then show the technique back; a young child may need a well-fitting mask.
- For a prescribed metered-dose inhaler with a spacer, use the taught mouthpiece or mask seal and give one puff into the chamber at a time. Follow the device instructions for breathing, priming, shaking and cleaning, and the clinician’s instructions for the total prescribed dose.
- Record daytime symptoms, night waking, limits on activity and reliever use for the review visit. Bring every inhaler and spacer so technique, dose counters, expiry dates and access can be checked. Keep follow-up visits even when the child feels well.