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A 4‐year‐old girl presents with her mother to the emergency department with shortness of breath, wheeze and a temperature. Her past medical history includes premature birth at 34 weeks gestation and asthma. She is prescribed salbutamol inhaler as required at home, which she has been using more frequently in the last 2 days. On examination, she is breathless at rest, is pyrexial, tachycardic and has bilateral rhonchi. She weighs 15 kg. A diagnosis of moderate acute exacerbation of asthma is made. You are asked to prescribe an anti‐pyretic medication, salbutamol and prednisolone.