Hi 🙂
Im looking for some advice and guidance of what to do, my son can’t suffer like this!
Basically, my 11year old son stops breathing. For some time now, if you would tickle him he would suddenly stop breathing then his lips would turn blue very quickly and I would calm him now and tell him focus on me and tell him to slowly try to breathe and a few minutes of this his breathing would come back now but it’s very distressing for him and this would happen now and then.
i had taken him to the doctors as he had 2 chest infections and I explained what sometimes happens from this they said suspected asthma and gave him an inhaler. My son could not inhale the inhaler as it was a powder form that took a lot to breath in (I couldn’t even do it!). I contacted the dr’s back and they said no this is suitable for him.
moving in to now he doesn’t bother with the inhaler as it’s impossible for him but now he is having theses breathing incidents every week with out fail for no reason and it’s very worrying.
i have been in touch with the dr’s who still haven’t diagnosed him with asthma but are brushing this breathing issue off.
what can i do? What could this maybe be? I don’t think it’s an asthma attack as he could be sat watching tv and it happens.
has anyone heard/know of anyone that suffers with anything similar to this?
it even happened recently in a swimming pool luckily I was close by or he could have drowned.
Any advice at all is very appreciated. Thank you