A good asthma control prevents chronic and troublesome symptoms, like coughing and shortness of breath; it reduces the need for quick-relief medicines, and it helps to maintain good lung function.

It also improves sleep, it helps to maintain normal activity levels, and it prevents dangerous and potentially deadly ashtma attacks. Dr. Rodney Benjamin, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician with South Miami Hospital, says there are therapies that will control those things and most of the time the controllers are pretty much non-toxic and easy to take and work.