Tutorial

HOW DO I USE DAILYBREATH?

We recently launched DailyBreath 4.0. This tutorial aims to show how to use DailyBreath and how to benefit from its continued use.

Setup

Once you’ve downloaded the app from the Apple App or Google Play store, the 1st time you access the app you will be asked your geo-location preference, and whether you wish to receive a notification to check your DailyBreath Forecast at 6am. If you permit us to use your location, we are able to provide you with the location of your symptoms on your My Symptoms Map as well as share anonymously the location of this your symptoms on the Community Symptoms Map thus crowdsourcing symptoms to provide everyone an understanding of exposure risk at that location. Your morning notification helps you get in the habit of checking the DailyBreath Forecast, the daily weather and environmental conditions in your area, and via the Community Symptoms Map, where others like you have experienced symptoms in your community. Next you will be prompted to select any health conditions you may have. This piece of information will configure the your personalized risk index calculation based on your condition.

DailyBreath Forecast Pop-Up

Once you’ve made these selections, the DailyBreath Forecast Pop-Up will come up based on your geo-location. The DailyBreath Forecast consists of the DailyBreath Risk Index # with a radial dial that is colored green, yellow, and red according to the Risk Index #. The AQI, with a corresponding Air Quality Flag (in the US) is displayed along with the PM 2.5 measurement and the Ozone measurement. Below is the pollen count/level and the pollen type. The Prevailing Factors are those weather variables that have influenced the calculation of the DailyBreath Risk Index based on our proprietary algorithm. Below this data is an impact summary: a description of why the conditions displayed may impact your condition along with recommendations of preventative actions you can take to reduce or avoid experiencing symptoms. A Share button on the DailyBreath Forecast Pop-Up allows you to share DailyBreath with friends to encourage them to download it and become part of the community. You may click the X in the upper right corner to close the pop-up to display the home screen which defaults to a view of the Community Symptoms Map with your location centered.

Home Screen

The home screen consists of a search bar to input other locations to search for a DailyBreath Forecast, a map that toggles between the My Symptoms Map and the Community Symptoms Map, and a navigation scheme on the bottom with ads displayed on the very bottom of the screen. These ads are often related to relevant products and services to support those trying to manage the air they breathe and their health. Note that next the search bar is a heart icon. This is the Favorites (Plus) feature, which allows you to select locations that you visit frequently in your community for which you want to easily retrieve your DailyBreath Forecast. This is a paid feature of our DailyBreath Plus (only .99 annually) as it starts your journey to customize and personalize DailyBreath for you.

So, let’s start with the Map. When you record a symptoms, it marks the location on the map with a pin. If you have allergies alone, the pin will be green. If you have allergic asthma, the pin will be purple. And, if you have asthma alone, the pin will be blue. Generally, marking the location according to your condition may provide insights into the extent to which allergens or pollutants are impacting your symptoms. As additional conditions are being added to the app, we’re modifying this approach to accommodate all symptoms. This is a work in progress, but will be part of our Premium version targeted for release in Spring/Summer 2025.

On the toggled maps a Share button is displayed on the map that allows you to share DailyBreath with friends to encourage them to download it and become part of the community.

Note you may also click on any location on the map and it will place that address in the search bar and provide you the DailyBreath Forecast for that location. So, if you are going away for the day or on vacation to another location you can see the DailyBreath Forecast for that area. Note the change in the DailyBreath Risk Index and you’ll understand quickly how dynamically your risk changes based on the weather and environmental exposures associated with a specific location. On the bottom right is a button that centers you back to your geo-location if you’ve searched for the DailyBreath Forecast at another location. On the bottom left is a DailyBreath Risk Index Icon that will bring up your DailyBreath Forecast Pop-Up should you want to review it again. On the bottom of your Home Screen you may access the following features from Left to Right; Record Symptoms, , Discussion Board (Coming Soon) Videos, and Menu.

Record Symptom

The Record Symptom option is where you identify your onset symptoms when you feel those signals so that we are capturing the environmental insights associated with those immediate symptoms. Besides selecting the type of symptom, you are asked to identify the severity of those symptoms.

If you select any symptom that has been recognized as a common symptom of COVID, you will receive a prompt that recognizes this and suggests you reach out to your provider for further guidance. The prompt is activated if you select one or more COVID related symptoms. Some symptoms are unique to allergies (sneezing, itchy/watery eyes/redness, itchy or irritated skin) or asthma (wheezing, hard and fast breathing). You should note symptoms that are unique to COVID like fever, fatigue (feeling weak and tired), or dry coughing.

Additional questions will be added in future updates. These questions will define your activity at the time of symptoms, like exercising. For now, though, we want to capture these symptoms of triggers outdoors as quickly as possible when you are experiencing them.

Discussion Board

The next option is our Discussion Board. The discussion board allows community users to discuss any topic that they want to share with others related to allergies and asthma. This is another way of communicating this shared asthma journey. The discussions are organized by topical tags, by most recent submission, and by topics with the most replies. Tags may include immunotherapy, allergens, COVID, and more.

Videos

The Videos option makes educational videos available in the following categories: Each video category features an affiliate partner that offers a solution, upstream intervention, if you will, that either helps measure or manage the air you breathe, or measures your physiological response to triggers, or helps you to manage your specific health conditions. Our initial category introduced FCV Check, an app that helps people by creating a baseline by listening to their cough then using that audio to check your cough and determine whether you may be experiencing an onset of a possible symptom response to triggers. Each screen has six corresponding videos related to the category. Click on the image and the video interface will open in a new screen. Click on play to launch the video in a browser and when finished closed the screen and return to the DailyBreath app within the Video module. We’ll be adding additional categories to the Video module and are seeking partners for the sponsorship of each of the proposed categories. We envision at the minimum, adding videos on Triggers, Correct Inhaler Usage, and more.

Menu

Finally, the last option is the Menu, the menu includes a prompt to Upgrade, access to your Profile, Scheduled Notifications (Paid Feature of DailyBreath Plus), About DailyBreath (which includes FAQs, our EULA, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy), Tutorial, Rate the App/Leave a Review, and Login.

Profile

As for the detailed profile, you may submit a picture so that people may identify you by photo in the Friends or Discussion Board feature. Then, there are fields for your first and last name. There is a field for the country code of your phone number and a field for your phone number. The phone number is necessary for the Friends module to function so that you may find and add Friends within the community or accept their Friend requests. Your phone number is never displayed to others within the app, only viewable within your profile. Your phone number will never be shared with any external party. Within settings you will be asked to share your age and your gender (at birth) as well as two universal questions regarding whether you have food allergies or allergies to insect stings.

Then depending on whether you have selected allergies, allergic asthma, or asthma alone, you will receive specific questions to fill out. For allergies, you will be asked whether you have had an allergy test. You will be asked what are your known allergen? Are you undergoing allergy shots or drops? If yes, you may opt to receive automatic reminders. Are you taking allergy medicines and which ones?

For asthma, you are asked about whether you have taken an oral steroid more than once in the past year? Have you been to the ER for your asthma this year? Have you been hospitalized for your asthma this year? These are important questions to gauge the severity of your condition and understand whether your asthma is well-controlled. Then we ask about your biologic medicines, controller medications, and relief/rescue medications.

DailyBreath Plus (.99 yearly)

DailyBreath Plus delivers initial premium features that permit the customization and personalization of DailyBreath. You will be prompted to upgrade via clicking a Favorites button, clicking on the My Symptoms table accessible on your My Symptoms map, or via the Upgrade link or Scheduled Notifications in the Menu. When prompted a Purchase screen comes up detailing the additional features in DailyBreath Plus including Favorites, a My Symptoms Table, Scheduled Notifications and Automatic Medication Reminders and offering a Buy Now button at the bottom which when clicked will launch the purchase process via the Apple App or Google Play store.

Favorites

You will notice Favorites to the right within the search bar. Once you have purchased DailyBreath Plus this feature is enabled. When clicked on, it selects your geo-location or the location you entered in the search bar as a Favorite or Saved Repeat Destination.

My Symptoms Table View

When you click on the My Symptoms Map View, you will see an icon on the upper left of the map for the Table View. Upon purchase, this feature will be enabled. If you click on the icon it will open a window with your symptoms along with the associated weather, pollution, and pollen variables for each recorded flare-up.

Scheduled Notifications

Within the Menu you will find the other two paid features. Within the menu, you will find Scheduled Notifications, which once enabled, allows you to select the time of day you wish to receive a notification to Check your DailyBreath Forecast.

Automatic Medication Reminders

Finally, when you have purchased DailyBreath Plus, you will enable an option when you identify your allergy medicines or asthma medications to choose to receive automatic medication reminders.

OUR ENVISIONED ROADMAP

• Premium features added to an improved version of DailyBreath Plus, including Heatmap Overlays, Expanded Geo-Location Features and Alerts, Enhanced Educational Videos and Video Integration, Personalized Risk Index and Individualized Alerts, a Monthly Asthma Control Test, Added Symptom Questions, Custom Symptoms Reports (Symptom Diaries by Week or Month), Medication Tracking, and Added functionality to Community features (Friends and Discussion Board).

We welcome your feedback on existing functionality and your suggestions for additional functionality and features. Please feel free to use this Contact Form to share your input.