The Ministry of Health has presented a set of advice that asthma patients must abide by when it rains, coinciding with the continued rains in a number of regions of the Kingdom.
The Ministry advised asthma patients to be careful to avoid rain and cold air as much as possible, as they are irritants to asthma, while taking care to cover the head, mouth and nose when forced to go out, as well as to carry an emergency spray (bronchodilator) permanently, and to take care to take the preventive spray if prescribed before. doctor them.
And she stressed the need to go to the nearest emergency center in the following cases: “blueness of the extremities, lips, and tongue, exacerbation of symptoms, inability to breathe or speak,” in addition to failure to respond to the first aid spray.
