Confused about childhood asthma

[janicewheeler]

Is this even a thing, can they grow out of it ? Ds 7 has had what we'd call a weak chest all his life. Since he was 3 months old he was in and out of hospital with bronchiolitus, any viral infection he got went straight to his chest and he's left with this flemmy, persistent cough that wouldn't budge. At 2 he was given reliever inhalers which helped massively. Fast forward to now and he still suffers every single winter, he gets a virus, that goes then he's left with a hacking cough, very mucusy that just won't budge. The last three years he was given antibiotics to shift it.
So off we went to the gp this morning with the same issue, virus 5 weeks ago, horrible cough since. The doctor seems adamant it's asthma and has prescribed him the brown inhaler and told me if the cough goes it's asthma. Is this right ? Is it possible to only have asthma in the winter and brought on by a cold/virus of some sort?
He did peak flow readings last year and they were stupidly low (but apparently not accurate at his age anyways)

Yes, viral asthma. Dc can grow out of it.

We had a trial by treatment they called it where given brown inhaler if it helps then its asthma. It has helped massively. Before brown inhaler every cold became a cough and then either needed steroid drops for severe wheeze or antibiotics for tonsillitis. He has never needed steroid drops since brown inhaler and not had tonsillitis either (tonsillitis may be a coincidence)

I Have asthma though it's a bit confusing because I also have copd. Getting a cold is my number one trigger for it getting worse, including hospital admissions pre covid. Post covid, I've had no cold so no hospital admissions. But that's because I'm cev, so I go out very rarely. I'm currently at week three of a voluntary isolation. Family and friends have voluntarily said they will do doorstep drop offs of presents ect.

So my view is that symptoms getting worse in winter is perfectly normal