Asthma chat

**SimplyMum** · 04-06-2009 13:40

Hello fellow Mums of asthmatics!

Wanted to see if anyone has experienced any asthma related dramas this Autumn/Winter.

Ours started about half way through Autumn. I was trying in vain to avoid hospital/dr visits and medications by using the heater, vix, vaporiser early on but my efforts were in vain. He is now on medications for the rest of Winter but alas- hopefully it clears up the coughing fits he was having.....and I can keep my heart in the right place for a little while.

**gabETandme** · 26-06-2009 21:25

Yep I have the same issues.

He especially of a night has coughing fits that he is gaging.

His GP diddnt seam to care. Will have to go back to his RESP specialist

**SimplyMum** · 29-06-2009 08:46

Originally Posted by gabETandme

Yep I have the same issues.

He especially of a night has coughing fits that he is gaging.

His GP diddnt seam to care. Will have to go back to his RESP specialist

Yes, this is what DS was doing. Coughing fits where he would be gagging at the end. The preventer he was on wasn't helping- he is now on a tablet form of a different preventer that seems to be doing the job. It's still hard to keep that very nasty chill out of his room.

Hope you get somewhere with his resp spec.

**tomnabbysmum** · 13-07-2009 10:21

i went through hell last year with my son i was at the docs twice a week because he didnt stop coughing tried so many different things then he got put on singular tablets a life saver my lil girl is in to week 4 of coughing but shes too young to take singular and she hates taking the puffer i rang the ashma foundation and they gave me lots ideas .give them a ring. next week im going to an easy breathers clinic to get some more advice good luck ladies

**dani82** · 13-07-2009 20:53

we just found out a week ago that my 15 month old girl has asthma. and is on flixotide and ventolin and i'm having trouble getting her to breath it in through the spacer with a mask. does anyone have any ideas how i can get her to keep it on her face.

dani

**SimplyMum** · 15-07-2009 08:20

Dani- does she have dollys? Try making a game out of it- let her play with it a little bit. Put it on the teddies/Nanny/Poppy/Daddy etc etc. Just bit by bit. Try not to push it too much. If you get even the smallest one in- give her lots of praise and perhaps even a small reward (you'll know what works for her).

Had a small scare on the weekend with DS. He caught the bug that seems to be going around. Which than turned into croup which than resulted in a coughing fit. He woke up coughing his little heart out. His eyes were huge, he was gagging and drooling and when he tried to breathe I could hear and see every muscle in his little body working so hard. It was horrible. But a hospital trip soon fixed all of that up- he's now back at daycare.

**dani82** · 16-07-2009 00:34

i'll try that, at the moment i'm doing the night time puffers when she is a sleep. but the daytime ones are the pain, she goes to daycare and there is a child in her room that has a puffer so they try to sit them down together. but she seems to really cough at night and sometimes dueing the day maybe one cough a day but mainly at night. we put a air purifer in her room and that seemed to make abit of a differance.

**Nowhere** · 16-07-2009 00:55

[quote=dani82;3893337]we just found out a week ago that my 15 month old girl has asthma. and is on flixotide and ventolin and i'm having trouble getting her to breath it in through the spacer with a mask. does anyone have any ideas how i can get her to keep it on her face.

hold the mask on her face she will scream and fight you wil feel horible but the good thing is a screaming baby is a breathing baby they take deeper breaths and it goes further too the lungs, if you hold it there long enough she wil breath it in

I know its sounds cruel but its the truth, sometimes tough love is the only way
HUGS

PS if that fails get a neb instead and put it on her teddy and get her to cuddle teddy then some of the vapour she wil breath in too, We have had to do this with DDS oxygen and nebs in the past

**MordecaiAliVanAllenO'Shea** · 16-07-2009 15:23

dani82 - my DS is 16months and has been on flixotide and ventolin since he was 13months - he used to fight it and scream and like Miki's mum said we just had to do it, he needs the medication. I would always count to 10 though when holding it on and now he knows and will wait for me to get to 10 before trying to get the mask off.

We're going to a paediatric respiratory specialist next Tuesday to try and get his asthma better managed - even on flixotide twice a day and ventolin he is coughing a lot, that same gagging cough everyone has described. When he was sick he was on pred-mix too (about 6 times so far, 3 days each time), and even then it doesnt seem to be under control. My sister lent us her vapouriser to try overnight and the last two nights he has coughed a lot less.

Has anyone had any success with eliminating things from their DC's diet to see if it helped with their asthma? I've been reading up on Benzoates and salicylates and think of trying the failsafe elimination diet to see if it helps - may even help my asthma too.

**dani82** · 18-07-2009 22:23

hi,
i worked out a way to get my little girl to take her ventolin and flixotide, i went out and brought a smaller spacer and now i still have alittle bit of a problem with her keepin the mask on but at least i know she is getting it all.

dani

sophie 15 months
Hayley 3 years