Parents of Asthmatic children lets chat here...

[Nemoandthefishes]

As we all know now tends to be when the asthma kicks off worst so thought we could all have a thread going where we can chat about different things...

My dd1 is asthmatic and is 2.9yrs old, started with breathing issues at 3wks old and was officially diagnosed last october.She has been admitted too many times to remember from asthma attacks/respiritory issues. She is currently on 4mg montelukast, 5ml cetrizine antihistamine, clenil modulite 100 2 puffs morning and night, salbutamol when required

Thought I'd update this one and see how everyone's doing

I have two asthmaic kids (though they're both late teens now). DD is 'brittle' and DS used to have what they called silent asthma attacks, this meant his lungs would close down so much he'd no longer wheeze he'd just go grey and floppy. Scared the crap out of me the first time he did it. The first ten years with them were horrendous then they both imporved for a while, for a whole year DD managed on ventolin alone but recently it came back with avengence one night out of the blue. She ended up in A&E with what they suspected to be a pulmonary embolism but turned out to be just a really bad attack. For the last two years we've struggled to keep it under control again.

DD is allergic to Christmas trees (took us 5 Christmasses to work out that the reason we spent every Christmas night in hospital was that green thing occupying the corner of our living room and not the over-excitement of the day), she's also allergic to cats, all of the evergreen trees, rape seed and house dust mites.

Having said all that though her asthma has never held her back. She's competed in triathlon at national level and swims for the county.