Post by karabear4409 on May 4, 2017 8:40:02 GMT -5
Does anyone have a LO with asthma? DS2 (almost 8 months) was diagnosed yesterday. He had RSV in January and basically never stopped wheezing. He did a round of antibiotics, breathing treatments and steroids in April. The steroids and treatments helped temporarily, but it has flared back up.
The plan is to do a steroid breathing treatment twice a day for three months (😁) to calm down the inflammation in his airways. If he has any asthma attacks, we will do albuterol tx as needed.
The doctor said that the RSV could have caused the asthma, and he may grow out of it. Or, he has a lot of risk factors (MPI, eczema, family history), and the RSV triggered the asthma that he will have indefinitely. We also have him on Zyrtec, and we are installing a HEPA filter in our house, as well as individual air purifiers around the house.
Any experience of advice? I'm going to need a lot of wine to get through two breathing treatments a day with a mobile baby.
Post by mrsrodgersaz on May 4, 2017 11:46:55 GMT -5
No advice on asthma but I hope he ends up growing out if it. When we had to do breathing treatments with C, Sesame Street videos on you tube were a lifesaver. Good luck!
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My DD had bronchiolitis at 6 months and got albuterol and saline nebs as needed for about 2 weeks. We put her in her high chair to do the nebulizer. They can still turn their head away but at least they can't wriggle around too much and can't escape.
My DD had bronchiolitis at 6 months and got albuterol and saline nebs as needed for about 2 weeks. We put her in her high chair to do the nebulizer. They can still turn their head away but at least they can't wriggle around too much and can't escape.
The high chair is brilliant! Thank you! He currently just tries to crawl away the whole time.
We had to use a nebulizer for ten days, three times a day when TT was 7 m and had a cold and double ear infection. We ended up ordering the pacifier attachment for it online. He never took real pacifiers, but he sort of chewed on that one. We also used the spout looking attachment, rather than the mask thing. We danced and sang in front of him while we did it to try to distract him. It wasn't easy. He currently has another cold so I feel like we might try to neb him tonight before bed...which might be harder with a mobile 11mo. Sorry you are having to do all that.
My advice is to make sure he actually has asthma. Take him to a pulminologist my grandmother was thought to have asthma her whole life and her doc misdiagnosed her. She actually had pulmonary hypertension.
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DS was fiiiinally diagnosed with asthma right around 7months. He had gotten RSV and then had 2 more flare ups where he was in the ER. Finally he was diagnosed with respiratory airway disease (or asthma) and we go and see a pulmonologist. We had to do the nebulizer 2x a day. The best thing I did was hold him and sing to him. It was the only way he'd calm down.
Since seeing the specialist he now has an aero chamber that attaches to an inhaler. It's much faster and easier. So I'd see if your pediatrician could refer you to a specialist. Right now we're hoping he grows out of it, and the specialist thinks he will. But so far he still needs the inhaler at 19months.
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