A patient reports increasing the intake of herbal therapy because it is "cold and flu season." The patient is currently receiving hydrocortisone therapy for asthma. What is the first question for the nurse to ask the patient related to this statement?

What are the herbal therapy he is taking for asthma?.

Explanation:

Any medical practitioner must know about the drugs or medicines his patient is taking before assigning a new medication. This is because there are several compounds which react with one another resulting in severe side effects.

Here the patient is taking hydrocortisone therapy for asthama. Which means his body showed allergic symptoms. The allergy may have occured due to the herbs he had been taking for cold and flu. So, the nurse needs to know what herbs he had been taking.