How to Educate School Personnel When Your Child Has Asthma
- Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 13:48
- Asthma
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- Andrew:
- You’ve mentioned about other people who work with a child – teachers and school nurses and others. Let’s talk about that for just a second. So, the parent and the child get comfortable with a treatment plan, and recognize that asthma can be under control. But certainly there are asthma flare-ups, and there are things that happen and needs sometimes for higher levels of medication. It could happen within the school day, perhaps. So what is the responsibility of the parent, and maybe the child themselves if they’re a little bit older, as far as helping educate school personnel, for example, so that they can be part of the team?
- Dr. Gower:
- Well, I always try to discuss, first of all with the patient, even if it’s a four, five, six-year-old youngster, because, the younger the child is, the more control the parent has over the care and nurturing of that youngster. But, as they grow older, all children exert some independence. So the kid has to buy into this. The teachers need to buy into it and be educated. I send literature to them, I write them notes and letters, answer their questions, and write out some sort of asthma management plan to the teachers, the athletic directors, the principal, any nurses that might be in the school, so they understand that the youngster with the asthma is not just trying to get out of exercise and P.E., or trying to use this as an excuse not to participate in planned activities. And with that education, I find most parents, most youngsters, most relatives, and most schoolteachers are very compliant and, by using all these different resources, utilize their different talents and different slants on life and different problems to come up with, I think, a more compliant patient and better results.
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