Paediatric Asthma
School Program
Asthma is the most common reason for students’ absence from school. Our objective with school program is to create and raise awareness regarding asthma and identify the common triggers for the same. Kids spend more time with their teachers and peers than with their parents and school is a safe environment to educate and train teachers on identifying the triggers early on and referring them further. Doctors along with our breathe free educators conduct sessions on identifying triggers and encourage the students as well as academicians to reach out for medical help when needed. Lung function tests are also carried out single out the kids at risk. School Programs are a powerful tool for ensuring that children understand, help others around and continue leading healthy lives as they grow older.
Asthma Par Vijay (Winning with Asthma)
From episodes of breathlessness to playing football like any other kid, Zahan’s parents went through a turmoil of emotions when his breathing problems were not diagnosed correctly. Watch his storyHuf Puf Kit: A child friendly pre-assembled spacer with mask
A mother often struggles with assembling a spacer and attaching a mask thereafter leading to an anxious dose administration for her child.
As a solution to this Cipla introduced Huf Puf kit as a ready to use inhaler extension kit, which includes baby mask and Zerostat VT spacer. The Huf Puf kit is especially designed to deliver medicine to children up to 4 years of age using an inhaler. It is an easy-to-use kit that makes it convenient for a child to obtain the full benefits of the medicine while breathing in and out normally. The shape of the mask provides a comfortable fit over a child's face for breathing, and transparent spacer allows you to keep a check on the dose released in the spacer. Huf puf comes in an attractive, robust and dust free packaging with space to store the spacer and the inhaler for ease of use.
‘Huf Puf kit’ received an award for 'Excellence in Packaging' by the SIES School of Packaging/ Packaging Technology Centre, which demonstrates our focus on superior and improved packaging standards.
Partnering with doctors
The crucial step in recommending inhalation therapy for a child rests in the hands of a paediatrician. And this is fulfilled only when the doctor has absolute confidence in writing an inhalation therapy and has adequate counselling skills We enable the doctor with numerous educational and hands on programs in upscaling their respiratory practise . Belief shift courses like casper and cases based trainings like Casper clinic empower the doctors in initiating inhalation therapy at his own clinics with much ease. Since its equally important to educate and train the upcoming young paediatricians, we run the invest in future module based learnings on paediatric asthma across medical colleges in the country. This acts like an hand holding program for the PG students once they start out independently to be fully equipped with the latest development in paediatric respiratory conditions
To create awareness on the correct use of inhalers, Cipla South Africa conceptualised a unique video series called Bronki Boosters to educate kids on how to use the inhalers correctly.
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