Juanita is a 10yearold Hispanic child with severe persistent
Juanita is a 10-year-old Hispanic child with severe persistent asthma. She has had multiple Emergency Department admissions for asthma exacerbations. Juanita lives in low income housing in the inner city along with her mother, grandmother, and an older sibling. How will Juanita’s cultural and socioeconomic factors influence the development of an asthma education plan? What interventions should the RN implement to empower Juanita to manage her asthma? Base your initial post on your readings and research of this topic. Your initial post must contain a minimum of 250 words. References, citations, and repeating the question do not count towards the 250 word minimum.
Solution
Since she belongs to low socioeconomic status , health behaviour to avoid disease and detection of asthma by appropriate screening tests are not done in early stages Standenders of living are poor in response to goods consume, dress, housing standenders leads to exposure to other factors which leads to increase asthmatic risk like exposure to allegins, dust, smoke etc. Social problems like mental health and stressful life commen in the family with poor income She had broken family that leads to lack of emotional support, motivation, feeling to early diagnosis of asthma. Female sex are neglected generally by their parents laeds to loss of proper health care towards the child. Due to problematic family, she has to work for economic benefits leads to labour may risk for respiratory diseases. Environmental sanitation, food habits, mother and child health, personal hygiene are poor , that leads to risk of allergins exposure. She has no health education and primary health care services from parents laeds to loss of health. Treatment of asthma: Bronchodilators like salbutamol, terbutaline used to improve the airways Corticosteroids for suppression of inflammation of airways Mastcell stibilizers used to minimise the release of mediators Leucotrene modifiers like montelukast, zafirlukast Anti igE antibodys are also used Theophylline and aminophylline are also used as bronchodilators and antiinflammatory.