My child has been poorly with his Asthma for nearly 4 weeks!
we have been back and forwards to the hospital, GP and out of hours! He has had a course of antibiotics as they said it was Bronchitis now he is just finishing a 5 day course of oral steroids and it’s not made any difference to the barking seal cough he has! He is having coughing fits through the day and worse at night and only have a minute or less inbetween each one!
he had no other symptoms the last couple of week apart from this cough but the last couple of days he keeps getting a fever that’s not lasting long at all with help from paracetamol.
I just need some advice on what to do next if I’m honest.
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This sounds awful. It would be good to know how old he is, as it is difficult to advise without this information. Keep going to the gp, he should not be left like this. Have you tried 111. They may offer more advice, I think there should be a referral to the chest clinic. Xx
He is 11yrs old and has been diagnosed when he was little with Asthma. He is on daily medication. They reduced his medication back in September! I did say to the consultant at the time that they have done this before previously and when it came to the bad weather he took poorly and they pretty much ignored me.
I’m going to go back to the GP today and hopefully they actually do something.
I took up judo when i was 11 yo. I had just gone through a lot of asthma attacks and ended up in a convalescent hospital/home for kids. It did me me good and I had to make a lot of decisions and for some reason or another I started learning judo.
I was never the fast kid when faced with non asthmatic children but learned one thing.... be quick and focussed - I won quite a lot then.
I still have asthma and I'm 73 yo - anything is possible even when you think it's not.
I phoned the asthma nurses on this site info line when I was in a situation a bit like this. My son was 3 1/2 I think. They were very helpful and got me clearer in my mind for what I should say to GP. This helped me get the GP agreed treat "as" asthma, although they said they wouldn't diagnose till.he was a year or two older.
Bless him,he,and u, must be exhausted. Does he have an asthma plan? Personally I'd ring gp for appointment today.get his chest listened to.id also ask that u go back to regime that worked,over winter at least. Is he on montelukast x
yes he has a Asthma plan, we are back at the GP this morning. We have been back and forwards for the past 4 weeks. He is so exhausted. He was on montelukast. They took him off alot of his medication back in September!
There are odd things you might try - being in a steamy bathroom can help, unless you have a facial steamer. Sleeping propped up, making sure the room is well aired but obviously not freezing cold, checking if any asthma triggers he has might be present, and keeping him as calm as possible with books, toys, music, or whatever suits, so he can nap during the day. You can get his body clock back to GMT once he is better. The hardest thing might be for you to keep calm as you are understandably very worried about him. Good luck!
I'd ring the helpline for advice in the first instance - sometimes, they can advise you on the right phrases to use to approach your surgery to get the right response. Depending on what they advise, it might also be worth trying to get an appointment with the asthma nurse instead of the GP. My GP is a nightmare, thinks everyone should control their asthma with Ventolin only because he thinks steroids are dangerous, but the asthma nurses are so much more knowledgeable. I NEVER see my GP about my asthma now, only the nurses.
You bring back awful memories of my son years many ago so I do feel for you.,I used to sit up all night holding him upright because it seemed to calm him a bit to get some rest between coughing the incessant seal bark (reminds me of my childhood too). I used a boiling kettle with the lid off in the night because that definitely helped (we were in N. Africa miles from help) BUT steam doesn't help all, for some it exacerbates cough.
If you haven't already do please give the helpline a call, there's just time before they close for the weekend - 0300 222 5800. Usually available 09.15 to 5pm Mon to Fri in UK.
we ended up in the children’s day unit and they done his obs and swabbed him and he had a chest X-ray that was all ok so they sent us away with Arithomycin for 3 days. He has had 2 doses and I’m not sure it’s working. Or are we just used to the cough now and not really able to tell if it’s got any better or still the same? As random as that sounds!
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