11 year old and breathing issues.

My youngest daughter has been having some breathing issues - we had to get an emergency doctors appointment yesterday, got given a blue inhaler and a spacer to use, told she has a chest infection (virus) and sent on our way. Today, she had to get taken to the hospital by ambulance from school for breathing problems, had low oxygen - 95% while on oxygen, 91% on air. Up until yesterday she has been fine with her breathing, no diagnosis of asthma. She is in A&E at the minute with her dad, we're not happy that she got discharged with 95% oxygen and was still short of breath. Paramedics said her problems may be due to being asthmatic. My question is - IF it is asthma, wouldn't she have been symptomatic before now? Should symptoms come on fast with no actual (known) trigger?

My head is in bits with the condition Emma is in.

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Poor you...and all the rest of your family..you are really going through it at the moment with everybody.

Difficult to say the cause - it could be asthma...or it could be stress given everything that you are all going through right now.

You know her best though, if you're not happy with what they are saying keep on asking for a re-assessment.

Hugs and I hope things start to improve.

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Aww thinking of you and your girls xxx

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does emma have an infection too? If so I would ask docs to rule out thet both girls have not got same infections...it may be of an evironmental source...it may be something or nothing but just a thought. hope they both get better very soon.

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Emma has a bad case of pneumonia which everyone believes is from the chest infection which she had.

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hi gill

u can be diagnosed asthma at any age. i was 17, some people not until in their 40's!!

infection itself can be a trigger... esp as she has been like that since yesterday hasnt she?

x x

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Hi Gill,

Must be really hard to have your other daughter with problems as well as Emma on the ventilator - thinking of you and hope things get better.

Like Snowygirl says infection can be a trigger - she could just have started having asthma (and stress is a trigger itself) but also maybe she could have had it very mildly before and perhaps only when she has a cold or something? I was diagnosed age 7 and even though my family is stuffed full of asthmatics and my mum grew up with an asthmatic brother and father she had NO idea that I had asthma and was really surprised when the GP said that was what my persistent cough was - my mum said she thought asthma would always be like her brother had it, so is maybe possible that if it was mild and didn't act like Emma's it could have slipped under your radar? She may even have only had it at school during games or something and just thought it was from normal running about. xxx

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I'm not sure, I don't really have anything to base it on - I have a niece who has really mild sports induced asthma and a friend who's had 1 attack and nothing since. Think I'm going to try get younger 1 in to see the nurse as Emma says she is better than doctors with asthma.