Your doctor may need to change your dose of controller medications or may prescribe other drugs that may work better for you.

People with asthma often need to use an everyday controller medication, which is a drug that eases underlying lung inflammation.

In addition to regularly taking controller medications such as fluticasone, Singulair, and Azmacort asthmatics should also carry albuterol, a common bronchodilator, according to Dr. Rambasek.

One category includes medications that are meant to control asthma in the long term and are used daily to prevent asthma attacks (controller medications).

Make sure your doctor makes clear which drugs are controller medications and which are rescue medications, and how and when they should be taken.

These could be cut in half if asthma was treated daily with controller medications.

The most commonly prescribed asthma controller medication is an inhaled corticosteroid, which reduces airway inflammation.

Take your medication People with chronic asthma often need to take controller medications that fight underlying lung inflammation.

For children who are using an inhaler to take corticosteroids (a type of controller medication), spacers also help prevent hoarseness and yeast infections in the mouth.

"If people take daily controller medications, they are less likely to have problems when they are near triggers," says Dr. Rambasek.