By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News

May is Asthma Awareness Month, and while there are several triggers and many treatments, there is no cure.

Linda Rhodes, health education and marketing director for the Livingston County Health Department, said there are ways her office can help people control their asthma symptoms.

“We’re very fortunate. We received some funding. It’s CDC dollars that came down to us from the Illinois Department of Public Health and one of the things we’re able to do is we’re able to go into peoples’ home and we’re able to do some trigger assessments – look around the house, find out is there a pillow cover or is there a water leak or is there something that can be changed? Can we change the cleaning products? So we come in, we spend about 45 minutes to an hour with the family and we kind of just walk through the house,” Rhodes said.

For more information, call the health department at 844-7174.