[Tigerchild]

...has your kid ever had an attack involving one lung a lot more than the other?

I feel like such a schmuck, my son was having breathing problems (not very severe) last night, with a high fever spike and lots of coughing, and I never thought to listen to his chest for a wheeze. He even had that asthma cough going on and I didn't connect it. (I have mild/allergy or illness induced asthma, but none of the kids has ever shown any problem with it until now)

The doctor we saw this morning mentioned viral pneumonia being a possibility, but that she didn't think it was a great possibility. Whenever I've had an asthma attack both my lungs have been involved so far as I know. I can see how it could be possible (especially if it's triggered by a virus or infection) to have just one lung getting restricted, but I've never heard of this, and was wondering if that's just because I've just not had to deal with asthma all that often.

I've been kind of kicking myself all day over this.

 

[LauraLoo]

Neither of my kids have asthma, but I did as a child. I had 2 full-blown, big attacks, and I don't remember either of them being lung specific. Of course, when you're having an attack, I don't think you're likely to think...."oh, this is only affecting one of my lungs."

Don't beat yourself up over this!

 

[MyTwoAs]

My daughter's last bout of asthma ended up with mycoplasma pneunomonia only in her right lung (started off with croup). She doesn't have attacks where she needs an emergency inhaler - she just gets regularly nebulized for preventative and then add-on nebulizer treatments if she's actively dealing with something - she has seasonal asthma it appears.

So while this doesn't directly answer your question it was interesting that she did have the pneumonia only in the one lung.

 

[Sierra]

Did they do a chest x-ray? My ds has asthma, and has had chest x-rays twice for pneumonia. Both times there was no pneumonia, but I don't remember either time them telling me that it sounded like it was mostly in one lung. I also don't remember hearing it mainly in one lung. But who knows???