New Delhi: If asthma patients constantly stay alert, they can tame it without much of an expense. Expense exacerbates only when Asthma is left to assume emergency situation. Guidelines created by various national and international organizations are there. If patients follow them, costs can be reduced substantially both by the individual and government.

In fact, the cost of regular Controller medication is as low as Rs 5 per day (less than a cup of tea). A year’s supply of medication is less than the cost of 1 night’s stay in a hospital.