{"id":44,"date":"2026-07-27T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/2026\/07\/27\/living-well-with-asthma-and-copd\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:17:08","slug":"living-well-with-asthma-and-copd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/2026\/07\/27\/living-well-with-asthma-and-copd\/","title":{"rendered":"Living well with asthma and COPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Breathlessness is easy to normalise and easy to under-treat. A yearly review is the single most useful thing most patients can do.<\/p><h3 class=\"mt-4 mb-3\">Inhaler technique is the whole game<\/h3><p>A large share of poorly controlled asthma is not the medication but the delivery. Our nurses check technique at every review, and a spacer often does more than a stronger prescription.<\/p><h3 class=\"mt-4 mb-3\">Know your own baseline<\/h3><p>Peak flow readings taken when you are well give us something to compare against when you are not. Two weeks of morning and evening readings is usually enough.<\/p><h3 class=\"mt-4 mb-3\">The winter plan<\/h3><p>Vaccination, an action plan written down, and a standby course where appropriate. The point is that you know what to do at eight on a Sunday evening without having to decide it from scratch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathlessness is easy to normalise and easy to under-treat. A yearly review is the single most useful thing most patients can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[14,15,16],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-respiratory","tag-asthma","tag-copd","tag-inhalers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/doctors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}