Take the Asthma Control Test (ACT) to help assess your child’s current level of control. If your child is 4 years of age or older an ACT score of 19 or less indicates that the asthma may not be controlled as well as it could be.
Strongly consider seeing one of our board certified pediatric pulmonologists to improve your child’s asthma.
- Our doctors see all new patient visits, routine follow-up visits and ill visits. We do not use nurse practitioners to see patients. After hours phone calls are taken by our doctors, not any “after hours” service.
- We listen to what you tell us about how asthma impacts your child’s and family’s lifestyle.
- In addition to a thorough examination by our doctors, we perform pulmonary function testing on all age patients (cooperation required). This gives us important information about how the lungs are working even in the absence of symptoms or physical findings. This helps to better determine if the current treatment plan is correct or if it needs modifications.
- When medically indicated, we assess your child for other illnesses which can cause your child’s asthma to be difficult to control. These include but are not limited to nasal allergy or infection (by examining nasal secretions under a microscope), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), discoordinated swallowing, and immune system disorders.
- Your child’s treatment plan is tailored to eliminate or reduce the impact of asthma on your child’s health and lifestyle and to optimize and preserve lung function.
- We answer all of your questions to the best of our knowledge.
- We communicate with your child’s primary care physician at each office visit about your child’s asthma status.
- We participate in clinical research studies involving asthma treatments.
- We do our best to be efficient, but we will not sacrifice excellence or safety to rush you in and out.