Toddler with brown inhaler - how long should I take to work?

[Reesewithafork]

He’s had a cough for months but has also picked up loads of infections due to starting nursery so we pretty much have one week on and one week off with illness.
recently was given ventolin which helped but then he picked up another infection and the cough got worse again so he’s been given a brown inhaler.

my question is how long does it take to work? The gp said two weeks, the asthma nurse said six weeks, and when I looked online it said 3-4 days.

the reason I ask is because the cough seemed to get better for a couple of days then today has got bad again. He won’t even take the brown inhaler this morning because it makes him cough so he yanks it off his face before he’s done the ten breaths.

I’m so tired and broken and just praying something takes this bloody cough away so we can all get some rest

There are an unusual amount (for summer) of respiratory viruses circulating at the moment. Hope all of the little coughing ones are better soon

At such a young age I wokld stick with the mask on the spacer. A little bit of a tickle or something can encourage them not to hold breath. Or singing a nursery rhyme or similar

@Sirzy weve tried everything with the mask he just freaks out and screams hysterically
and rips it off every time. When we’ve wrapped him in a towel to do it he’s cried so
much he’s made himself cough so much it’s made him sick :(