Hi all
this is going to be long. can someone please advise me about my dd aged 7.
basically she's used inhalers since she was about 6 months old, and has always suffered a seasonal cough - usually caused by cold weather, an infection (any respiratory/ent thing goes straight to her chest), or at this time of year (allergies?), she has mild excema, in one patch on her arm. when she's not having an asthma flare up, she has no symptoms. she's never had an asthma 'attack', been admitted, had steriods - although i had chronic asthma as a child, a cough, no asthma attacks and was admitted, on steriods, antihistamines, losec, galseud, had my own nebuliser for home (if that's relevant). my mum had me at the docs all the time, medicated for everything and nothing helped - i don't want to do this to dc, put her into the 'sick' role for essentially nothing.
on the 18/19 march she had a throat infection, this passed but since then she has had an intermittent cough which responded well to the use of her blue and brown inhalers. she seemed well on fri/sat so we went swimming on sat. since then her cough has got worse and worse. she never wheezes, has no shortness of breath, has an excellent appetite, is full of energy and is otherwise healthy. today she just coughed alllll day - can i just stress that i've not just neglected her but that until today she was responding to the inhalers!
I have given her her inhalors (3 100mg of blue and brown) at least six times today and she has just coughed, and coughed and coughed.
her doctor's has been closed today, but i'm wondering do i need to take her to the out of hours service? wait and see her gp tomorrow? or make an appointment to see an asthma nurse? her gp's attitude is very much 'yes, she's got asthma - and?' and i find them very disinterested/unhelpful.