Asthma

Which sentence best tells the main idea of this book?

• People with asthma can do anything that anyone else can.

• Asthma is a disease that makes it hard for a person to breathe, but i can be controlled.

• Many things can cause asthma attacks, and these triggers are the same from person to person.

• Tubes swell and become narrow during an asthma attack.

Read this sentence: Asthma is a disease that makes it difficult for a person to breathe. Which of the following means the same as disease?

• a medicine

• a doctor

• an illness

• a patient

Read the following list: pollen, fumes, mold. What do these three things have in common?

• They all can be triggers for an asthma attack.

• They all cause asthma in adults but not in children.

• They are things that keep asthma under control.

• They are things found in an inhaler.

In what way are people who have asthma different from people who don't have asthma?

• They sometimes need to have a healthy lifestyle.

• They can't climb the world's tallest mountain.

• They sometimes need medicine to help them breathe.

• They cannot become famous athletes.

Three of the following sentences are supporting details. Which sentence tells the main idea?

• People meet with their doctor to create an action plan.

• Most people learn what their triggers are how to avoid them.

• People learn how to use their medicine correctly.

• Most people with asthma learn to control the disease.

In what year was the percentage of children with asthma the highest?

• 2003

• 2005

• 2008

• 2009

How is nebulizer different from an inhaler?

• It delivers a mist of medicine that is breathed in.

• It helps people control their asthma.

• It uses power and gives out less medicine.

• It gives out more medicine over a longer period of time.

Which of the following tells what it means to wheeze?

• to make a rattling or whistling sound while breathing as a result of partially blocking air passages

• to use a device that allows a person to breathe in medicine

• to show specific signs of illness or injury

• to swell and become narrow, thus moving less air in and out of the lungs

Smoke, animals, and the flu are supporting details for which section?

• People with Asthma

• Keeping Asthma Under Control

• The Causes of Attacks

• Living with Asthma

Which is the effect of using an inhaler?

• The tubes leading to the lungs swell and become narrow.

• Symptoms often return when people with asthma become older adults.

• It causes a person with asthma to wheeze or cough.

• Asthma medicine is able to be beathed in.