Nursery won't give inhaler.

My 13 month old has a salbutamol inhaler for occassional asthma - I'm really hoping that she doesn't follow me and her dad and get full on asthma but thats another story!

Anyway, I went back to work part time when she was 11 months and she was going to a nursery for 1 day a week. When she was given the inhaler, the nursery told me they couldn't give it to her and I would have to send someone in to do it. I've checked with other nurseries in my area, and they are all the same. Does anyone else have this problem?

Fortunately, my sister is now having her both of the days that I work and so far, my daughter hasn't needed her inhaler but if she did, my sister could do it. I just wondered if any other parents had this experience or if you have a nursery that will give inhalers.

If she was diabetic, they would give insulin... odd I thought.

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This is a link to a section on this site. There is a booklet you can obtain form AUk about this which may be of some help.

asthma.org.uk/all_about_ast...

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My little girl (3 yrs) goes to nursey and they are happy to give the inhalers. I have had to sign giving the dose and that I take responsibility for them to give it. I think a few of the children have inhalers so the care staff are trained to given them.

Truly x

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I've never had a problem with ventolin being given at nursery or childminders after school club or school (once went in to see head and SENCO) as it was emergency treatment of condition although i had to sit down and discuss exactly what my daughters symptoms were who was to give it and give them a copy of their asthma management plan signed by the gp and put it all in writing if they were to ring first etc but they would not give a preventer inhaler or antibiotics, calpol etc.

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hi Dizie

Hello, I think that the nursery did very well IN DON'T GET HIM THE inhaler, BECAUSE with the time him worsens, I think that the better are the natural medicines.

My SISTERS HAD asthma, but thanks to the natural medicines, it(he,she) overcame it, and she doesn't suffer asthma attack, and the inhaler doesn't use..

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Perez , everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Please try and understand that this board has many members who have no choice in giving their children huge doses of drugs every day just to keep them alive. The natural way may work for you but my son needed medical help in intensive care from 1 hour old and it wasnt natural therapies that saved him!

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I'm with you Julie - I hate the amount of drugs we're pumping into Emily on a daily basis, and with awful side-effects too. However, having tried a herbalist and a homeopath, all I can say is that her health went downhill so fast in both cases that we didn't dare continue and went back to the prescribed stuff. i hope there will be some research done into long term effects but what other choice do we have when we are watching our children suffer?

We've had the problem with Em's nursery that they won't give the inhaler often enough, or enough of it, so she ends up in hospital on a regular basis. However, i have to work - mortgage to pay like everyone else and they are doing the best job they can - it isn't easy, is it?

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My cousin only believed in using natural therapies for years with her daughter and the poor girl was taking something like 12 or 14 different things every day and hated it. When she was about 6 she had to go to doc with breathing difficulties and he picked up straight away that she was asthmatic and all her homeopathic drugs had actually made her worse as she was reacting to the combination of them (which had been prescribed and sent by a homeopath). She was put onto inhalers and never looked back. She soon went from being the smallest and thinnest and most lethargic in the class and never eating to an extremely healthy and happy child and is now nearly 6ft tall and still really healthy. So homeopathic medicines don't always work.

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I tried natural therapies for my 5 year old daughter and she to had a severe allergic reaction resulting in a 5 day stay in intensive care. I hate having to give her all the drugs she is on now, and yes I do worry myself sick about long term effects but at the end of the day its whats best for her.Lets hope one day soon they find a cure.