Asthma

If you experience an asthma attack and your inhaler is not working, you can seek care at an emergency room closest to you. If your inhaler is working, UR Medicine can provide care through your primary care provider, urgent care, or virtual urgent care. The provider will evaluate your symptoms and determine the best course for treatment. They may refer you for an asthma consultation with one of our specialists. 

UR Medicine’s Mary Parkes Center for Asthma, Allergy & Pulmonary Care offers comprehensive care for patients suffering from all forms of asthma. Our team includes internationally recognized asthma experts who emphasize personalized approaches to diagnosis and management.

Your first visit will include a detailed medical history, physical exam and possible testing, including lung function, blood, and allergy testing.

We will work with you to:

• Identify what triggers your asthma, including environmental and occupational exposures and allergies.
• Diagnose and treat co-existing conditions that can make asthma worse, including vocal cord dysfunction, rhinitis, sinusitis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
• Explore airflow obstruction using comprehensive pulmonary function testing, including bronchoprovocation testing.
• Test for immune systems markers for asthma through blood tests and exhaled nitric oxide levels (FeNO).

With our personalized approach, we perform ongoing assessments with a step-by-step approach that includes adding new therapies to help get asthma under control and stopping treatments that are no longer needed. We will work with you to teach you about your disease and about the proper way to use the bewildering array of new inhaler devices now available.