Mrs. Cason brings her 10-year-old child to the clinic stating my son "just isn't breathing right, he doesn't want to play, he just sits on my lap or lays on the couch, and this happens all the time." Appearance of both mother and child is disheveled. The child's wheezing can be heard across the room. When asked if her son is better at any certain time of the day the mother responds: "It's like this all the time and has been for the past year, we just don't come to the doctor because we don't have any money."

Mrs. Cason's son was diagnosed of asthma.

• Discuss short and long term treatment options for this child, inhaled beta2-adrenergic agonists. Include rationale for your recommendations.
• What is your educational plan for the child

 

Answer
It is possible to control asthma eminently. 

Step-by-step explanation

For those suffering from this disease, it can be controlled very well if the patient takes the prescribed medication from the medical facility. Mrs. Cason's son needs to be treated in either long term treatment or short term treatment. The long term treatment is always taken based on the long term to ensure that the illness disappears. If this is done to Mrs. Cason's son, then the long term treatment will have been achieved in the treatment of the disease. The drugs that one should be taking in the long term basis treatment are; Flovent, Symbicort, Advair, and Pulmicort.

On the other hand, short term treatment that should be administered to the son should ensure that inhaler is available to ensure that he gets better as time goes by. It is always good to ensure that when this medication is undertaken, Mrs. Cason to be always available to ensure that the son does inhale wrongly. The educational plan for the child is that;

1.     The mother should ensure that the child carries the medicine while in school.

2.     The mother should ask the teacher to allow him to carry the medicine to school.

3.     The school management should discourage the staff or teachers from using perfumes that trigger asthma.

4.     The teachers should use dustless chalks to ensure that no dust is in the classroom.

5.     The school should ensure that there are no frightening animals in the school.

After all, these are achieved, then the educational plan for Mrs. Cason's son will be straightforward for him to follow while in school.