Asthma and COPD Education Center

Using your controller medicine? Have your asthma under control but still experiencing breathing difficulties when you exercise? If so, try using your quick relief medicine (Albuterol/Xopenex) with a SPACER approximately 15 to 20 minutes prior to the exercise, wait 5 minutes and use it again. Let me know if this works for you.

Help the Asthma and COPD Education Center and see a great Condors game at the same time. Save $3.00 off Executive Level and Terrace Level, $14 and $8.00 respectively. Game is Saturday, November 13, 2010. Call Sharon at 661-319-2098 to reserve your tickets.

Uncontrolled asthma may cause lung remodeling, permanent lung function damage and may lead to COPD. Learn how simple it is to manage your asthma and avoid remodeling, urgent care and ER visits, hospitalizations, limited physical activities and missed school or work days. Call the ACEC at 661-319-2098 for your one-on-one or group session.

Spirometry may be used to diagnose asthma and COPD.

Difficulty breathing? Shortness of breath? Coughing? Wheezing? Limited physical activities? Ask your doctor about asthma and/or COPD then call the Asthma and COPD Education Center for everything you need to know to stay healthy, stay active and improve your quality of life. Ask for Sharon at 661-319-2098.

Have you been diagnosed with COPD? Let me answer your questions about the physiology of COPD, medications, pulmonary rehabilitation, life style changes, oxygen therapy and anything else of concern to you. I can help you maintain the best quality of life possible with COPD. All services are free and provided at our office or your home. Call Sharon Borradori at 661-319-2098 for an appointment.

131,000 people in Kern County are diagnosed with asthma and over 90,000 diagnosed with COPD. That's one quarter of our county's population. Cost of asthma hospitalizations in 2006 for Kern County alone was over $18 million! Asthma that is well controlled doesn't lead to hospitalizations. Contact us to find out how to get and keep your asthma in control.

Want to stop having asthma attacks? Want to stop missing school or work? Want to participate in sports? Contact the ACEC for free asthma management education. One-on-one or group education available at our office or your location.

Help us provide free asthma management education of all of Kern County by joining our bike ride on April 10. Go to www.cyclingforasthma.com to register and for more information.

Using albuterol (quick relief) medicine more than two times a week? Missing school because of asthma? Physical activities limited because of breathing problems? Repeated cases of bronchitis or bronchitis at the same each year? Your asthma is out of control. Find out how to control your asthma instead of letting asthma control you. Call the Asthma and COPD Education Center for free management education.

Join us on April 10 for a bicycle ride for all levels, from expert to novice. Four routes to choose from: Century, Metric Century, 40 Miles and 20 Miles. Families are encouraged to participate and children 12 and under are free. Ride includes well-stocked rest stops, experienced support, BBQ, raffle, music, activities, goodie bag and vendors. To register and for more information please go to www.cyclingforasthma.com.