Constant cough in 2 year old

[BlueLace]

My DD (age 2) has a constant cough which is really concerning me.

I took her to the GP at about 12 months due to her coughing frequently, they reassured me it was normal which I was happy with at the time as it was only mild.

Since then the cough has got worse, I can't remember the last time she didn't have a cough and it happens frequently throughout the day. She has had a series of colds since September but the cough has been constant. I have noticed the cough gets worse:

-In the cold
-When she is being active
-At night
-If something is burnt when cooking

These situations can set off coughing fits that at times are bad enough to make her gag/vomit or keep her awake at night.
Throughout the day even without these triggers she coughs periodically, although not as extreme.

Obviously my first thought was asthma, I took her to the GP who prescribed a blue inhaler to see if it helped and asked me to return to review in a month.

The inhaler seems to sometimes help and other times doesn't, I would have thought with asthma it would help every time?

Unfortunately we've had Covid (thankfully DD has been asymptomatic) which has delayed the inhaler review by 2 weeks. I am finally able to take her this week coming but in the meantime wondered if anyone had a similar experience and if so what was the outcome?

Bump!

Had this with both my kids, occasionally turning into bronchitis or pneumonia. They had monteluklast before it was withdrawn for children and inhalers for a while. It got much better each summer and my four year old has not been anywhere near as bad this winter so hopefully they just grow out of it. Rinsing the sinuses with saline twice a day helped to some extent. Having a pulse oximeter at home was also useful.

Had this with my DD, she has allergy asthma which presents itself in the form of a cough, had to have daily antihistamine and steroid and blue Inhaler, otherwise she just ends up with a chest infection. Go back to the GP If you're not happy, I kept going back as the cough was affecting her sleep

I had this with my DD. I don't think the GP believed me when I said she coughed ALL the time - day and night - from October until March each year. I first took her to the GP when she was 2. At 3 they prescribed a blue inhaler but it made very little difference, if any, to the coughing and made her a bit hyperactive so we stopped it.
I'm sorry to say that it continued until she was about 6 or 7 and then gradually got better with each winter. She's 12 now and we've not had any coughing at all for the last 2 winters, apart from a week or two here and there when she's actually been ill with a cough, rather than coughing all the time for the sake of it!
I think that she just had small airways (she's small for her age) and large tonsils which were easily irritated, and this improved as she grew.

My daughter had this and we were given a blue inhaler which helped a bit but the cough returned. The GP then prescribed the brown (steroid/preventer) inhaler, which she has twice a day, and it works a treat.

There's a lot of great information on the Asthma UK website. I think sometimes the brown inhaler is needed to get things under control when the blue inhaler isn't enough. Definitely review with the GP - they may well suggest trialling the brown inhaler.