Asthma Clinic

In 2025 Don Medical Clinic will be offering Asthma Clinics.

What is asthma ?

Asthma is a serious and long-term condition that affects 1 in 9 Australians. Sadly, more than 400 Australians die of asthma each year.

There is currently no cure, but in most cases asthma can be well managed and people with asthma can live a full life.

Having asthma means you have sensitive airways. Your airways can become inflamed or swollen when you are exposed to your triggers .

There are 3 changes that can happen in your airways when triggered:

  1. Your airway walls become thicker from swelling.
  2. Your airways fill up with mucous.
  3. Your airways feel tight from the muscles on the outside of the airways squeezing.

These changes in your airways make it hard to breathe. You may feel like you are breathing through a very thin tube.

For more information

Goals:

  • Assessment of asthma history and management to date in a non acute setting
  • Revisit the diagnosis , the type of asthma and address triggers
  • Perform spirometry, a lung function test
  • Establish an Asthma Action Plan
  • Discuss inhaler technique
  • Review and up date medications where

Eligibility

  • any patient who has a diagnosis of asthma
  • who thinks they might have asthma

How to make an appointment

  • Self referral
  • you maybe offered an appt based on nurse or doctors recommendation

You may be asked to complete this questionaire before your appointment-> Asthma Control Questionaire

The Appointment will take up to 45 minutes , may involve a spirometry tests and where possible will be bill under Medicare as a General Practice Management Plan

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