Researchers found that when nurses visited children at home they found potential asthma triggers, such as smoking, in nearly 80 per cent of cases. The nurses' recommendations on dealing with these factors meant more serious treatment was not needed in more than half of the children visited (55 per cent).
Experts from the Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London studied 71 children under 18 who had problematic asthma.
They organised for a nurse-led hospital visit followed by a home visit which involved looking at allergy exposure, particularly house dust mite and pets, smoking, medication and psychosocial issues.
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