Thank you Rick for all you do. I loved the 7 ways asthma has been a benefit for you. I hope my daughter will say that someday. She is 20 and just diagnosed with asthma. I think she has had asthma for a while but it may have been masked by an anxiety disorder. You see whenever she had shortness of breath that meant she was having anxiety. She grew up having bouts of sinusitis, then esophageal reflux. At 15 she had allergy testing and was allergic to peanuts, dust mites, trees and grass. They did a test for asthma and it was negative so that is why I think it took so long to find out she developed asthma. All her shortness of breath was blamed on anxiety. When they did the asthma test a few days ago to our surprise she had asthma. The test was 82% and the nurse said she had poor exchange of air when she listened to her lungs. Also she couldn't believe how she could breathe out of her nose, it was so swollen inside. She was sent home with loads of medicine and here we are today...stunned. When she took her first puff of albuterol she was amazed...she could feel air going into her lungs. I felt so sorry for her. The Albuterol seems to work well for about a half hour to an hour then her chest becomes progressively tighter. Any suggestions. We have so many questions about asthma. Im so grateful for this web site.
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I just really want to know how you dealt with asthma. My daughter is only 3 and this year already she has been in the hospital 5 times. She just went last night and it was the worse I have ever seen it. Rushing her to the hospital was the normal routine but she could barely breath at all and her trying to talk was so hard on her but she loves to talk. She has a breathing treatment machine at home for when this happens but sometimes the breathing machine just does little or no help sometimes. When I brought her to the ER last night, the lady at the emergency entrance called right back and a nurse came out did what he had to do as quick as possible and brought her back into a room where there was like 8 doctors and nurses in the room attending to her all at once. That told me right there it must be very serious this time because that has never happened like that before. Usually they get her signed and than we wait for a pediatric nurse to check everything and than bring her back, but this time they took her right back got her a breathing treatment right away, put an IV on her right away and gave steroid medicine through that IV ontop of the breathing treatment. Than she had to be on a continous breathing treatment. The continous breathing treatment started at 7pm and she did not have it off of her until around 2am. The thing I do like to see with her is she recovers quickly but it seems like now once a month she goes through this because this has happened 5 times and its only the month of April. Of course the hospital I went to was wonderful with her and they all spoiled her and she did not want to leave at first. It is very scary to see her like that especially because I have heard in the news before about some people dieing from asthma attacks. I know I will be going through this with her for quite awhile. They did prescribe her Prednisolone, she is already taking singular and has been for about 6 months now, they started her on flovent inhaler, and abueterol which she has had that before. They wanted to give her xopenex but my insurance did not want to cover it so they had to go back with the abuleterol. Wednesday she goes to her regular doctor and I am going to talk about getting my doctor recommended to go see a lung specialist I know the word but I just do not know how to spell it off the top of my head. Do you have any suggestions about any of this. I did not know chocholate and spicy food can trigger asthma. My daughter does not eat spicy food but she does eat chocholate every now and than. I do know one of the triggers well two of the triggers or helping of asthma. I am a smoker but I do not smoke in the house or in the car but I know it is still on my clothes. I know I need to quit soon. I am trying to quit and it not easy. My parents live in a farm house that has a wood burner and I saw that that can trigger asthma as well. By keeping a house too warm can that trigger asthma because i know that cold can trigger her asthma as well but I do not want it too hot in here. I am just a nervous mommy worried about my daughter because her real father is not in her life by his choice so it is basically just me and her. I have a friend that is like a father figure to her but does not live close by. I do have family here for me, but even with all their support I still get scared and nervous when she has these attacks. Do you have any suggestions at all?
The fact you are here is a great first step. Educate yourself about asthma. Read as much as you can. Click here and read about asthma basics. Click here and read about asthma basics again. Read my shareposts. Read Kathy's shareposts. Much of what we write is advice on how to live with this disease. Check out blogs by asthmatics other asthmatic moms, like this one. Become an asthma expert. The more you know, the better you will be able to manage your child's asthma.
Click here to get some good advice on how to quit smoking. Learn how to allergy proof your home. Make it so your child never has to confront her asthma triggers when she is home. Until she gets her asthma under better control, don't let her go anywhere where she'd have to confront her triggers. And, as I'm sure you've been doing, continue to work with her asthma doctor. You'll have to become a team to beat this asthma thing: you, your daughter, and the doctors.
Here are some key articles to get you started:
1. Asthma action plan
2. Asthma action plan
3. Signs and symptoms of asthma
4. Asthma triggers
5. The medicines
It may take some time, but by being a good asthma mom (as I'm sure you are) and by working with your child's doctors, good asthma control should be just around the corner, and your child should be able to live a normal, active life.