Sarah Michelle Gellar spoke about teaching her asthmatic children proper inhaler use and how she balances work and home life during the pandemic.
The "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star shared the lengths she goes to balance her work and home life during the pandemic.
“My role has always been, focus on what you’re doing at that time with 100%,” Gellar said. “When I’m with the kids, I’m with the kids. My phone is down, it’s not work time, there’s no phones at our table in the kitchen. “I am very happy that I send them off to school in morning,” she said. “I learned that you’re not supposed to be teacher, mom, principal, gym teacher, referee, lunch lady and everything in between.”
While parenting during the pandemic was already stressful, Gellar also dealt with the worry over COVID-19 as someone who has had asthma all her life. It was even more unsettling to think that the respiratory virus could affect her two children, who both have asthma.“It was really scary, especially as someone who has a young child,” Gellar she said. “My son, everything goes right to his lungs. He gets a cold, it goes right to his chest.
A recent survey of asthma and COPD sufferers done in collaboration with Teva and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America found that only 45% of respondents are using their maintenance inhaler as prescribed, and almost 60% are overusing their rescue inhaler. "I think that I’m a perfect example of someone who hasn’t let asthma stop them from doing anything athletic and difficult that they want to do," she said.Alamy Stock Photo
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