Asthma Information for Parents

Learn all about asthma. Learn how to manage your child’s asthma. Learn about symptoms, medicine and more.

Even with asthma, your child should be able to:

Run, play and do sports without asthma symptoms
Sleep through the night without asthma symptoms
Have strong lungs
Not miss school because of asthma
Have no (or very few) hospital visits for asthma
Control asthma using medicines with as few side effects as possible
Feel good about his or her asthma care

This parent section will help you learn all about asthma. The section is also available in Spanish.

Meet the DPS Asthma Program Counselors

Learn all about Asthma

Get the basics:

DPS Asthma Program "ABC's of Asthma" [LINK]

What makes asthma worse?

What types of medicines are there?

Living with Asthma:

Additional Asthma Information:

The Denver Public Schools system has joined with the following associations to form this Asthma Program.