YOGYAKARTA - Asma, a chronic disease that disturbs the respiratory tract, and has become a scourge for millions of people around the world. So is there a way to treat asthma for a complete recovery?

The good news, with a better understanding of asthma mechanisms, various therapies and lifestyles, has been developed to manage symptoms and improve the quality of life of patients.

The purpose of asthma treatment is to limit symptoms, prevent asthma attacks, and avoid side effects of asthma drugs. Reporting from the Mayo Clinic, here are the following three steps can help you control your asthma treatment:

Your health care team may have made a written asthma action plan. This plan tells you how to make decisions every day and when to take medication. Following this plan is the key to controlling your asthma.

This plan has three parts with color code:

The green zone of this plan is for times you feel good and have no symptoms of asthma. The green zone tells you a dose of the long-term control drugs you have to drink every day.

This phase also tells you how many sprays you have to take quickly before exercising.

The yellow zone tells you what to do if you have symptoms. In addition, it also explains when to use a sustain quickly and how many sprays to take.

In addition, this zone also explains what to do if the symptoms don't improve and when to contact your treatment team.

The red zone tells you when to get emergency treatment if symptoms don't improve or if they get worse.

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Your health care team may ask to use a device that measures how well your lungs work called lung function tests.

This plan includes instructions when or how often you have to do lung function tests. It also tells you what to do if the test shows your lungs are not working well. You can use one of these devices:

This device measures how fast you can force air out of your lungs. The reading of the peak flow is usually the percentage of how well your lungs work at their best.

Spirometer measures how much air can be accommodated by the lungs and how quickly you can exhale. This measurement is called the volume of forced ekspiration (FEV-1).

Your FEV-1 measurements will be compared to typical FEV-1 for people who don't have asthma. Like reading the peak of your flow, this comparison is often given as a percentage.

Writing a daily asthma daily can help you track symptoms and help share accurate information with the health care team. For that note some of the following information:

In addition, the symptoms that need to be recorded in your asthma daily book include:

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