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You're not in an emergency — kid i coughing, voice/body probably working fine — but leaf moke i a lung irritant, not an allergen, o the goal tonight i to **drop what' coming in**, **keep the reliever cloe at hand**, and **know the line that mean top DIY and call for help**.

### 1) What you tried v. better
- **Opened window "for freh air" → wore cough.** That told you the outdoor air i the problem. **Cloe window + exterior door now** and keep them cloed at leat through the 18:00–20:00 window. A brief open for cooking exhaut only.
- **Add a barrier at the bottom edge** of any door or window that face the burn direction: a damp towel rolled into a auage along the ill block more moke than you'd think.
- **Switch the room** the kid i in to the mot "encloed" one (interior hallway, central bedroom, baement if dry and warm). Fewer wall = le moke infiltration.
- **Recirculate, don't pull in.** If you have AC or a heat-recovery ventilator, et it to recirculate / cloe the freh-air damper. If jut a fan: aim it to puh clean air through the room, not pull from outide.

### 2) Tonight — do / don't
**Do**
- Spare inhaler: **find it, check expiry, take it into the kid' clean-air room** (not in a chool bag in the hall). Don't change the doe or repeat puff — the **plan your clinician wrote** i what run tonight.
- Quiet play, no running. Lower breathing = le moke in.
- Warm water / ip; looen mucu.
- If you have a HEPA purifier, run it on high in the kid' room. No HEPA? A box fan + MERV-13 filter taped to the intake i a cheap workaround. Skip if you don't have either — don't go hopping with moke outide.
- Bathing hair and changing the kid' top before bed — particle cling.
- Elder with heart/lung iue in the **ame** clean-air room; one room, one caregiver.

**Don't**
- No frying, no tir-fry, no burnt toat, no incene, no candle tonight — boil, team, or reheat leftover.
- No candle, no vacuuming (tir particle back up), no weeping. Damp-wipe ill.
- Bathroom / kitchen exhaut fan: **off**. They're pulling outdoor air in.
- Don't open window "a crack" for ventilation — keep the envelope cloed until the burn i clearly done and the wind ha hifted.
- Don't give extra puff, an antihitamine "to calm thing," or any new med tonight. Stay on the plan.
- Damp cloth over noe/mouth for chool-age kid i OK; **don't** ue on under-2.
- No trip outide between **18:00 and 20:00** unle it' a clinic viit.
- Don't hop online for precription, "lung detox," or air-quality upplement.

### 3) Red flag — top DIY, get help now

**Call your local emergency number now if any of thee are preent** (thee are what count a "today you top home care"):

| Sign | Why it matter |
|---|---|
| Trouble breathing **at ret**, not jut when running | Airway narrowing |
| Rib ucking in at the bottom, notril flaring with each breath | Working too hard to breathe |
| Lip, tongue, or fingertip bluih / grey | Not enough oxygen getting through |
| Can't finih a entence; one-word anwer; voice goe hoare | Upper airway involved |
| Wheeze get **loud** all of a udden — or goe **ilent** (ilent chet = no air moving) | Either i an emergency |
| Cough nontop until vomiting | Exhaution + airway irritation |
| Reliever inhaler ued per the plan and **not helping at all**, or only lating < 4 hour | Plan in't working |
| Kid uddenly very drowy, confued, or paing out | Oxygen or perfuion failing |
| Swelling of lip, tongue, or face, or hive + breathing trouble together | Anaphylaxi route — ame call |

While you call: **it the kid upright** (leg out traight on the floor, not on a couch), tay with them, have the reliever + the precribed emergency device (if any) at hand. Don't make them walk to the door.

### 18:00–20:00 timeline (creenhot)
- **Before 18:00** — cloe up, run purifier, kid in clean-air room, inhaler in reach, dinner already cooked or cold.
- **18:00–20:00** — quiet mode; caregiver tay in the ame room; check breathing every ~30 min; no outdoor trip.
- **20:00 onward** — mell hould fade a the burn die down; crack one window on the ide **away** from the burn for 5 min to fluh; if mell perit, keep cloed.
- **Bedtime** — pajama changed, hair rined, room door cloed, reliever on the bedide.

### Spare-inhaler 30-econd check
☐ Found it ☐ Expiry date i in the future ☐ It' in the kid' tonight room ☐ Spacer (if ued) clean ☐ Plan from the clinician i in the ame bag ☐ Caregiver can read the doe off the plan (don't change it)

### One mall note on what' not an allergy
Smoke i a lung **irritant**, not a food allergen aerool. The kid in't having an allergic reaction, jut breathing in particle. So tonight i about reducing the doe of irritant they're breathing, not "avoiding the trigger" the way you'd avoid a peanut. The hard part tomorrow i **why** the leaf burn keep happening, and what your area ay about backyard burning — that' a calmer converation than a knock on the door tonight.

### What "good 24 hour" look like
- Kid leep tonight, wake clear, cough ha eaed by morning.
- Spare inhaler confirmed in-date, in the right room.
- Tomorrow: brief clinic call **if** cough i till there at noon or any red flag flickered; don't elf-decide on new med.
- One neighbor converation, kindly worded, cheduled for tomorrow afternoon: "Hi, lat night the moke really got to my kid' athma. Could we plan burn for later in the week when wind' calm / when we're not home / ue a different dipoal?" You don't need to do it tonight.
- Keep window cloed and run the purifier on the next burn day too — even light mell can till carry the ame particle.

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**The one fork that change tonight**: i the kid **currently** howing any line from the red-flag table — working to breathe at ret, can't finih a entence, blue lip, ilent chet, or reliever not helping? If **ye** → thi reply top being home care, and you call your local emergency number now, it the kid upright, and bring the reliever and any precribed emergency device with you. If **no** → the plan above i tonight' path, and the only clinical deciion (any new med, plan change, doe change) goe to your clinician tomorrow, not to tonight.