Say hello to Sara. She enjoys reading, spending time with her friends and soccer. What she doesn’t enjoy is her asthma.

At first, Sara and her parents didn’t recognize the warning signs of asthma. Sara was having shortness of breath twice a week (sometimes more). To make matters worse, her asthma symptoms started waking her up at night.

One night, it got so bad that Sara’s parents rushed her to the Emergency Room. The ER doctor’s diagnosis: mild persistent asthma.

The next day, Sara’s primary doctor confirmed this diagnosis and prescribed PULMICORT FLEXHALER. Now, PULMICORT FLEXHALER is helping to control Sara's asthma. PULMICORT FLEXHALER won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptons. She is sleeping through the night and experiences symptoms twice a week or less.

Once Sara was diagnosed with mild persistent asthma, her mother started doing a little research. She wanted to know more about what asthma is and how it could affect her daughter.

Here is what she learned:

• Asthma is an ongoing condition that interferes with breathing. When a child has asthma, his or her airways become inflamed, preventing air from flowing freely in and out of the lungs. This makes it difficult to breathe
  
  
• Coughing and wheezing are the most common symptoms of asthma in children. Other signs include rapid breathing, shortness of breath (difficulty breathing), and tightness in the chest
  
  
• Warning signs of mild persistent asthma include rapid or noisy breathing, chest congestion (i.e., grunting when taking a bottle or breast-feeding), complaints that the child’s chest hurts or feels funny, tiredness, lethargy, irritability, not wanting to play, and trouble breathing