Please suggest important questions i can ask my doctor about asthma.

If: If on steroids, see an eye doctor to check for glaucoma and cataracts.

Make: Make sure you understand each medication and how to use it.

Do: Do i need a peak-flow meter? Will a spacer improve the dose of med i get from inhaler?

Ask: Ask your doctor how you can best self-assess your own asthma. A "peak flow meter" may help.

What: What is the severity of my asthma? Can I use rescue inhalers alone rather than steroid control meds?

How: How can we test for my triggers and then avoid them?

Ask: Ask for allergy consult if: needed oral steroids, been hospitalized or to the er for asthma.

If: If your asthma is not controlled, ask your doctor to refer you to an allergy/asthma specialist.

Ask: Ask for a pulmonary function test (pft) to definitively confirm a diagnosis of asthma if over age 5.

Could: Could my asthma be triggered by a low grade chronic sinusitis that looks like an allergy problem?

Ask: Ask to take the act (asthma control test) to see how well your asthma is controlled.

Is: Is my asthma triggered by allergy and could I have sensitivity to avoidable allergens? (animals).

If: If you are having breathing difficulties ask your doctor to have you perform spirometry and feno.

If: If you are over 5 years old, check spirometry; if older than 8 years old, check exhaled nitric oxide.

How: How safe are the inhaled medications that treat asthma compared to the pills people are prescribed.