Wheezy babies- how do you handle the fear (yours)??

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Have just settled my 14 month old wheezy daughter after another hour of will we/ won't we goto A&E. Shes on ventolin and a preventer inhaler for what looks like "asthma" too early to be sure. Took 7 puffs this time which relly is a lot

What we get are severe coughing fits mostly at night and therin lies my problem. At times I think oh my god this is so bad she needs to go to A&E but at night you feel so isolated. Tonight I realised I hadn't allowed enough time for the ventolin to really kick in (10-20 mins) before really pressing the big red panic button but time goes slow with a wheezer.

Now shes asleep breathing nicely and I'm wide a wake fretting actively and I've got work at 8.30 arrrghh

How do you cope?

thanks luvaduck, taking her to gp yet again tomorrow yet again about her chest am thoroughly sick of it all
hope all babies wheezing less today

been to docs two days in a row la la la

Ds is an enthusiastic wheezer - took 6 months for anyone to really take us seriously about his coughing, and at that point he had collapsed part of his lung due to mucus plugging (as it turned out). He had 9 weeks of antibs to shift it in the end - when it hadn't shifted after the first lot (took him for followup xray and the radiographer started telling me how her DS had been the same and ended up in ITU, thats how bad his coughing was), we got referred on and DS had loads of tests to check for reason other than wheezy baby/?asthma, which were all -ve.

Hes now on beclamethasone and ventolin, and is pretty good most of the time. Consultant said that he could have up to 10 puffs every 4 hours if things got bad, and so far we've avoided A&E, but have been at that dithering point.

When DS coughs really badly at night, I sleep with him propped up on my pillows and a Karvol diffuser on