My 3yo daughter has had four short stays in hospital in the past year with breathing difficulties - viral induced wheeze and/or pneumonia.
For about 6 months she has been having a brown steroid inhaler twice a day and has had no breathing problems.
Recently she has had a bad cough - but it hasn’t gone on to her chest - she is not wheezing and GP has listened to her chest and agreed it is clear so has suggested stopping the inhalers.
However she has regularly and pretty consistently got a high respiratory rate (about 60 breaths per minute) and heart rate (about 145bpm) and her O2 sats are often low (around 93). ((We bought our own Oximeter after her second stay in hospital)).
GP has referred to a cardiologist in case it is due to a heart murmur but she doesn’t think it is likely. I am not looking for medical advice but just wondering if anyone else had experienced anything like this with their little ones?
It is just a bit of a mystery to me because she is happy and thriving - there’s no sign that’s she’s ill really - but she does breathe very quickly - almost panting even when she’s just sitting still. I had just sort of assumed that it was asthma and that maybe she’d grow out of it but now the GP suggested stopping the inhaler I don’t know what to think!