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Original poster

My little plum pudding has got asthma :( :( :( :(

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oliveoil · 07/02/2006 15:20

Went to the docs today with dh and has got two inhalers bless her.

She has had a really bad hacking cough for weeks and weeks, lots of sleepless nights etc.

I know it isn't much compared to what a lot of you have to deal with, but bless allow me a little corner to feel sorry for myself.

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meggmoo · 07/02/2006 15:20

oh bless. Is her chest all wheezy too?

doormat · 07/02/2006 15:21

dont know nothing about asthma
hugs
xxx

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oliveoil · 07/02/2006 15:21

wheezy

and she cries and looks at me with watery eyes

Am wuss. That is why I sent dh!

x

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bakedpotato · 07/02/2006 15:23

It is miserable
However with luck inhalers will sort out her/your nights
And hopefully she will grow out of it as DD seems to be doing

Mercy · 07/02/2006 15:23

How old is she oliveoil?

My db started using an inhaler when he was about 3 years old.

meggmoo · 07/02/2006 15:23

Awwww I don't have it so don't know what is feels like my neice had chronic asthma (as a little one)as a little one and now barely has to taker her inhaler.(she's 9 now)

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oliveoil · 07/02/2006 15:24

Do they grow out of it

Dh was only confirmed recently and he is 34.

I just know that there will be fights after when dd1 sees the inhalers and thinks they are toys and she is being left out.

I hope it sorts the nights out, I am offically 92 now instead of 36, eyebags galore.

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oliveoil · 07/02/2006 15:25

She is 17 months

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misdee · 07/02/2006 15:27

have you got a spacer? dd1 had her 1st inhalors at about 1yr old. i cried as well.

Marina · 07/02/2006 15:27

oo, does she have a history of respiratory problems? Is this a surprise to you and dh?
I only ask because a GP once suggested that ds had asthma after a similar nasty cold. I remember reading at the time that a possible reason for so many children outgrowing asthma nowadays is that they may not have had it in the first place. Ds certainly didn't, but we left the surgery with three prescriptions, which we never filled in the end.
Just a thought.

Marina · 07/02/2006 15:28

Sorry, thread moved on quite a lot while I was doing some work...

Tinker · 07/02/2006 15:28

Agree with Marina. My nephew "outgrew" his.

misdee · 07/02/2006 15:29

how old is dd1? dd2 likes to have a 'go' on dd1 inhalors. she doesnt really but i put the spacer over her mouth and go psssst. she thinks it funny.

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oliveoil · 07/02/2006 15:30

Marina - the doc said that they can't test for it at her early age but they gave the inhalers as a precaution, esp as it has been going on for so long and dh's condition. (what is work?!)

Misdee - not sure what a spacer is, sorry.

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misdee · 07/02/2006 15:33

spacers

bundle · 07/02/2006 15:33

we have a spacer/inhaler too as dd2 had a recent episode of basically not being able to breathe, but me and GP reluctant to label her as asthmatic, unless eg she has a nighttime cough without a runny nose/cold (classic symptom). So the drugs are there but we've never used them, even though she's dead keen...there's a picture of a teddy with him using it on the side and she even brought home her nebuliser mask from the hospital as she didn't actually have one of those in her own medical kit

Marina · 07/02/2006 15:33

oo it's a four-letter word of course!
Hmm, this inability to make confident diagnoses in babies is significant I think (not blaming GPs or your GP in particular). Does it help to regard dd2 as using inhalers on a precautionary basis rather than as "having asthma"?

bakedpotato · 07/02/2006 15:35

My GP also stressed that childhood asthma is quite different to adult

One doesn't mean the other

We have same spacer, Bundle. Haven't used it for a month or two

Marina · 07/02/2006 15:35

When was dd2 in hospital bundle? Or did you tell me when we both had drink taken
Hope all is well now.

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oliveoil · 07/02/2006 15:37

she has the cough without the runny nose at the moment but had both at the start of December. Coughs and wheezes and can't breath sometimes and sounds like she is choking in the night, hence me running up hallways every two mins, I miss my sleep.

The doc said that the inhalers would not harm her even if she didn't have asthma.....hmmmmm.

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Marina · 07/02/2006 15:39

hmmmm indeed. We got this line too and that's why ds never got a whiff of his volumatic, which was just handed to me from a huge stash at the surgery. Funny how this applies to inhaled drugs, but any GP would be concerned about you giving Calpol daily in case your child got a fever...
Sorry, not helping really. What you need is sleep above all so I really hope the med help you and she with that.

bundle · 07/02/2006 15:40

marina, it was during autumn half term when i was due to get up at 5am with dd1 (taking her to see a friend & new baby in Scotland)..dd2 started crying and as soon as i lifted her I knew something was seriously wrong.. I had started to get dh to run the hot taps in the bathroom, mistakenly thinking "croup" but realised she wasn't coughing, in fact she could barely get any breath in/out (could only whisper) so i shoved her in the car up to the whittington ( bp), they looked worried when the measured her pulse-ox and put her on a nebuliser for an hour. she slowly pinked up and they kept asking me if there was any family history etc, looked confused & gave us oral prednisilone too just in case. by the time we left her mask was her friend, but keeping it on at first was tricky...
(i checked with the GP a week later just to reassure myself that she felt the same as me, it was probably a one-off due to a nasty virus)

Mercy · 07/02/2006 15:41

I was going to suggest some changes to her diet but at 17 months, she's possibly too young. Poor wee thing

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oliveoil · 07/02/2006 15:42

We have to report back in a month and make a diary of when she coughs etc.

It was the specialist at the asthma clinic we were referred to so I am hoping that they know a bit more than an overworked GP

Sigh.

Self pity moment over with, thanks for that!

xx

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