Nursery World - New resources aim to cut children's emergency hospital visits for asthma

The British Lung Foundation has stressed the importance of age-appropriate information to cut the rising rates of emergency hospital admissions for childhood asthma.

New resources are being made available to educate young children with asthma.

According to Asthma UK, emergency admissions in asthmatic children rose by 15 per cent from 2012 to 2013, and three people die every day due to asthma in the UK.

The resources include Monkey Has an Asthma Attack, a storybook and activity guide breaking down the illness to children and their parents. NHS Burton Hospitals and the Whittington Hospital in London already provide the new resources and Brighton Hospital is due to in the near future.

Dr Penny Woods, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, said, ‘The increasing rates of hospital admissions among asthmatic children are evidence that childhood asthma is not currently being managed as well as it should be in this country.

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