[Clara Lou]

Students self-medicate here in Texas. One of my students used his inhaler in my classroom yesterday and didn't miss a beat doing it.

[Tax-chick]

Sounds like you need to get your kids with asthma out of the public schools, doesn't it, unless you want them to die while procedures are followed.

[MineralMan]

Any student with asthma who has a prescribed inhaler should be allowed to carry it with him/her at all times for use when needed. Schools which prohibit this are putting themselves in line for some crippling lawsuits should a child die for lack of a prescribed inhaler. This is just ridiculous.

Same applies to epi-pens for extreme allergies. If the child is old enough to have a doctor prescribe self-administered epi-pen therapy, then schools should allow the child to carry the thing. Any other response could easily come too late, causing the death of a student, who could otherwise be saved by self-injection.

It's going to take a couple of deaths and huge lawsuits to make schools understand that their "zero-tolerance" policies are stupid in the case of prescribed live-saving drugs, which must be administered immediately to save a life.

[ladylib]

A pediatrician (who homeschools her children) said on another site that children with asthma are always to have their inhalers with them.

If I had a child with asthma, I would never send him to a school that has a policy of keeping the inhalers in the nurse's office.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Liberals think it's okay for kids as young as twelve to have abortions without having to notify their parents, but taking life-saving medication without intervention by the nanny-state is a no-no.

[First Amendment]

First of all, it's criminal kids can't have inhalers with them. Second, as an asthmatic myself, there are things that aggravate a lot of asthma - carpets, perfumes (such as those in most clothes detergents and softeners) and no fresh air. Also a lot of cleaning products - either the chemicals in them or the perfumes. At the local hospital here when they have an asthma support group meeting, they ask that people not wear perfumes. At a local clinic, they have signs asking people not to wear perfumes because of patients with asthma.

I also have a friend with the same type of asthma and she has had the exact same experiences.
When I got rid of all perfumed cleaners, detergents etc from my house my asthma improved tremendously. Most of my symptoms are now outside the house when I'm around others who use perfumed products.

[TheDon]

There is a problem according to some and that is schools all over the state of Idaho and other state's for that matter, do not let children with asthma self medicate. And according to the American Lung Association' Mary Hutchison, that has led to a few deaths.

Separation of school and state PING!