Toddler asthma

[flowerlover1990]

My son (2 in December) has been given a blue pump and a brown pump to help with asthmatic symptoms when he gets poorly but been told to take brown pump daily. We’ve been in and out of hospital/GP surgery for recurrent chest wheezing/breathing issues since his first winter. Finally we have had an X-ray done and consultant said his chest looks asthmatic. I don’t know anyone with asthma and neither myself or my partner have anyone in our family with it either so I’m a bit clueless. Could anyone give me any tips on how to help my son please? Anything else I can be doing? It seems his is very seasonal if that’s a thing?? He’s been fine all year (Spring,Summer) and this is the first seasonal cold that’s affected him. He doesn’t get out of breath running around. Will he grow out of it? He hates the taste of the brown pump at the moment. Just feeling really deflated and worried.

Yes, she did. She had all sorts of tests, including one for cystic fibrosis. Basically, they concluded it was not asthma, and she would grow out of it. Her last hospitalisation was when she was about 4.5. She was fine after that, and actually became a high level singer, so nothing wrong with her lungs. She's 24 now.

Post her ill episodes, the worst thing was having to blag an inhaler out of the GP as her school needed her to have one for any school trips.

flowerlover1990

They were getting a few chest infections a year, and one used to get a cough if he really really pushed himself playing football or running. It is so hard

No I can't say we've noticed any behaviour changes to be honest. Maybe go back to your dr if the behaviour changes continue?

Give the preventer am and pm before you brush his teeth.

Yes GP'S can be reluctant to give more then one blue inhaler at a time. Luckily schools are now able to hold blue inhalers themselves in case a child forgets theirs or they run out. DS has had to use the school one when he forgot his own.

OP they can have a change in behaviour with the inhalers. I would notice DS get hyper after having his blue inhaler. I asked my friend who has asthma as she said it does give you a bit of a buss and I think because DS needed multiple puffs on the blue it would make him a bit hyper.

His asthma is quite bad though and he was very quickly put on a purple inhaler and montolukas which really helped for him. He still takes them now and we also use an air purify. He's allergic to house dust mites and has limited soft furnishings in his room. I used to have to freeze his teddies regularly.

You say you husband has bad hay-fever, asthma and hay-fever are linked and as we have a family history of both, plus I'm sure DH is also allegic to house dust mites although he's never been tested. Is why the consultant said he was unlikely to fully outgrow it.

It was so hard when he was little trying to get him to take his medication was hard, but having to listen to him coughing ever night was really difficult. Especially when they are so little. Hugs

My son is now six. We've been in and out of hospital since a toddler with wheeze and breathing difficulties. We manage with a daily antihistamine and a stronger two daily dose of the brown preventer.

We’ve got a blue and brown inhaler for our 2yr old, we ended up going private in the end because our GP was great about prescribing inhalers for his regular crackly chest (been a problem since a small baby) but when they ran out wouldnt re-prescribe if he wasn’t poorly which meant the preventer was absolutely useless! Our private paediatrician put a repeat on his file so now we can have it continuously. We find he still gets crackly but it seems to have helped a bit, but we will see as we go through winter.
inhaler at bed time is non negotiable, so he can do it by choice (which he does a lot) and we do a lot of teddy bear picnic inhaler taking and he will ‘give’ the inhaler to his toys, but if he refuses we pin him down. It’s unpleasant but necessary. As the GP pointed out when they’re screaming they usually inhale after so keeping the spacer mask on him whilst he’s crying does the trick. We don’t have to do that too often now though, thank fully.

We ended up going private too, and it was there that our son was prescribed the montelukast. Its crazy that we have to do that to be taken seriously. (He also has another completely unrelated, rare health condition which after over a year of seeing the GP, we finally got diagnosed by a private peadiatrician). We are very lucky to have private healthcare via our jobs

Ds2 had asthma from about that age.
Usually triggered by chest infections at which point he’d need nebulisers in hospital and montelukast for a couple of weeks.

He had brown inhaler twice daily and blue as and when required.

In primary school he’d need blue inhaler before PE lessons.

As a teenager they switched him to Relvar that he only needed to take once a day.

He’s in his 20s now and finally grown out of it. Doesn’t need any inhalers and ran a half marathon without any issues.

It is hard when it’s triggered by them already being poorly, but his was well controlled at other times and we made it through.

Here’s hoping you can get things under control for your son.