Asthma in the family and Coronavirus, is there any advice out already?

[TheMotherofAllDilemmas]

I suppose when they say the elderly and vulnerable will be asked to self isolate for 4 months, the “vulnerable” also includes people with asthma.

If your asthma is under control, are you considered vulnerable? I wonder if I should start getting my head around the idea of locking my teen and myself up for as many weeks as the government is suggesting.

Thank you.

My son has well managed asthma but I'm still really worried, any sort of illness seems to effect his breathing even a sickness bug. We had gone down to using his preventer inhaler to just once a day quite a while back but we've gone back to twice a day just in case.

I have asthma and have had several attacks in the last 18 months so am feeling anxious.

I'm not sure how it will work having two small children (still in school right now in the UK) and a husband who works in London....

I’m very lucky to have just mild asthma, in that it flares up suddenly with hayfever, flu, etc. Had to go to hospital last time I had a chest infection with it.
I dug out my inhaler to discover it’s just gone out of date, so I have ordered one from Superdrug online doctor. Didn’t take long for it to be approved & saves me bothering my surgery.

@Alwayscoldhands I had no idea you could get inhalers via Superdrug - thank you! I've just ordered two salbutamol inhalers to tide me over until my surgery approve my asthma review. You'd think at times like this they'd cut some of the red tape and grant me a repeat of the medication I've been on for the last 15 years, rather than insist I book an appointment (there aren't any) and come into the surgery (seriously?) to have a review just because 'it's time'...

@ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule
I only found out about this recently and think it’s great idea for people like me. Happy to have helped and take care!

Thanks for the tip, I will order some. DS’s asthma is under control but he has had a chesty cough for months (allergy related but he knows best and can’t understand he shouldn’t have so much dairy). I’m worried that if we add just another thing to the question, we may end up in A&E. (If accessible... 😕)