Bsckground: DS (12) has had mild asthma for a few years, characterised by an occasional shallow cough, and generally controlled by a brown inhaler, 1 puff twice a day. He's only ever been prescribed a blue inhaler once, age 10, when he had a chest infection.
But .... now he has a very deep cough - the sort of cough that makes people turn their heads in the street because they think he's choking. It has gradually got deeper over the last 3 - 4 weeks - it started as his shallow cough, after a mild cold. We went to the GP last week. He took DS's temperature (normal) and listened to his chest (no obvious infection), and as he had no other symptoms he concluded it was a worsening of the asthma. He prescribed a green inhaler - 2 puffs, twice a day.
Since then, the cough has continued to deepen. We don't know if the inhaler is helping or not. We're on holiday in Pembrokeshire now - if it was asthma then I would have expected that to help, but it hasn't (we normally live in London).
DS has generally been fine in himself, but he's clearly fed up of the cough, and seems wearier and grumpier than usual.
Any thoughts on the diagnosis! At what point should we go back to the GP?