Asthma ??

[JordanKX]

not sure if I should post this in health or what... mods, move if need...

And I'm not sure if I'm looking for advice. or if i just need to rant. btdt stories would be good.

DS, 15months, was hospitalized this week overnight from what seemed to be an asthmatic attack. It started as bronchiolitis (well, first it was pneumonia, then changed). And they said the regimen is albuterol breathing treatments + steroids. Which shouldn't give a good result. But because he DID have a good result, it wasn't a bronchial thing... it was more like asthma.

So now he's home on a 5-day treatment of albuterol as needed + prednisolone once a day.

He's already a different baby back at home. Wheezy, but nothing scary like before he was admitted to the hospital.

I guess my question is... how many people started with this one occurrence and then it eventually turned into 2-3-4 times, and therefor "asthma" as diagnosis. Should I think that this COULD be a one-time thing?

I'm not scared. I'm just trying to be realistic. Friends with kids who have asthma say... if there's a chance you can save some of the albuterol for the future, just in case, DO It. As though this might come up again.

Ideas? btdt? (the internet searches are too scary on this... I'm done with that kind of "research" right now)

Thanks!

[Neera]

Dd was diagnosed with Asthma on Friday by a specialist. She is going to be 4 soon. Not sure if this will answer ur question but just giving u a brief history of how it progressed to asthma.

We really never had any wheezing issues or any issues at all until she was close to 2. It began gradually. My memory fades me but there was wheezing involved at times when she would fall sick. At one point we changed doctors. The new doctor diagnosed asthma. We ended up going to back to the old place just after the one visit with the new doctor. The old place insisted her symptoms didn't confirm she was asthmatic. This was earlier this year. I've noticed a cough on and off all this year. Around allergy season in Sep. this year she started wheezing nearly  every day. It continued thru Oct. We had a move in Oct (not a big one - just to the next town) and around mid Sep we had informed her and started preparing for the move so don't know if that had anything to do with it. (it definetly affected her emotionally but I can't say for sure it was cause for the wheeze.) The specialist says at an early age they can't diagnose it as after a certain age it goes away. But, if it continues the symptoms she has are a sign of asthma. One that dd doesn't have is exzema which is a symptom as well.

Here are all her symptoms: wheezing, coughing (almost chronic with short breaks of no cough). And runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing ,  upon waking in allergy season  (Sep-Oct).

Edited by Neera - 12/20/10 at 9:21am