asthma

Iv just had a home visit from the asthma society lady (was refered to her) for Astin and man do i feel like a terrible mother!!!

She said Astin has severe asthma!!!! ...now i knew he had asthma but thought i was keeping it under wraps as its always a result of a reaction but turns out he gets it from more than his alergies.....IM SO COMFUSSED!!!!!!!!!!

When she was here he was very wheezy (he has a flu right now also!?) and checked him over and said that he wasnt far off a serious asthma attack!!! ...he such a happy baby so didnt click on!

BAD MUMMA!!!

Oh hun, dont feel like a bad mummy, no way are you!
and yes, allergies may bring on his asthma, but a lot of the time (and speaking from experience) there is NO warning of an asthma attack, I have honestly had i dont know how many attacks, from pretty much just sitting down.

when anyone who has asthma get a cold/flu, there is a heightened chance of an attack happening, so you just need to watch for any signs, i find when im about to start getting an attack, i rock forwards and extend my neck, trying to subconsciously get more air in, im not saying that Austin will do this, but he might, or he will have other signs, asthma signs are just a learning curve.

good luck hun, asthma is an awful thing, but it can be pretty much non existant when its under control, its just a learning curve.

If you ever need to talk or need any advice (i have heaps when it comes to asthma! haha) please PM me or anything ok?

i was the same lu!   we'd been told by a dr that jack just had a cold and he would get better with time...that was a blenheim dr...by the time we got back to chch later that day, my mum saw him and said we should take him to the dr straight away and when we got there, we were sent to the hospital where we spent the night!

i was going to wait til morning and then take him to the dr if he was still no better.......so don't beat yourself up amber......it's really hard to know what to do, especially when they have colds

Oh, I discored on
www.nickjr.com
they have an "asthma activity pack" - looked pretty cool for the kiddies.
BTW I had two children hospitalised from asthma attacks that i seriously thought "weren't too bad". with oxygen levels both under 70% so i think we have all been "bad mothers" at one time or another.

Yeah Paris has been pretty bad with asthma and especially with chest infections. She goes from being ok and running around to seriously sick with infection and wheezing really quickly. There are times when i wake in the morning and can hear her breathing down the hallway and know that there's no way I'm going to work that day. She'll spend the day quietly snuggled in her jammies on the couch, have a shower in the steamy bathroom, I give her little chest massages to help her relax and she has her inhalers lots more.

And come on, I didn't even realise when she was 15 mths old that she had a mild case of whooping cough, which probably attributes to her problems even more.

And I thought she was just a great sleeper since birth cos i was lucky - turns out it's cos she had a heart problem - again, her cardiac problems contributes to her breathing problems when she's tired etc.

And when we lived in our last house, I seriously didn't click that it was that winter that she had 3 really serious chest infections straight after the other, a cough that wouldn't budge and had to had inhalers constantly throughout that winter - till we moved out, and mover her dresser out from the wall to find BLACK MOULD had grown behind it. (ie, the worst kind that does lung damage)   We got rid of her dresser. Anything that had any hint of it on there got biffed. I knew that house was a bit cold - but to have that stuff there, geez, no wonder she was so sick!

We never replaced the kids beautiful scotch chest drawers (bought only a year before we moved to that house, dammit) They now have those plastic sparkle drawers for their clothes and they're so much easier for them to get into. All their daycare/everyday stuff is kept in our large hotwater cupboard anyway.

We now don't care how much the power bill is, our house is well heated with oil heaters and a nightstore heater and is kept pretty much constant temperature during winter - cos otherwise we end up spending heaps on medicines anyway, add to that time off work and the fact it takes her weeks to get over anything and it's just not worth it

We're mums, we're only human, and we definately aren't psychic.   As time goes on, and now you're more aware - you'll probably find you notice little triggers or trends to things that lead to his asthma being worse.

Edited by mum2paris

Dont feel bad......Even NOW..and Paige is nearly 9.....I still dont recognise it as they can be plodding along fine and happy........and she is pretty not good either or refuses to go get help if at school...she leaves it til the last minute and then we are rushing her to hospital...
Winter by far worse for it as usually all flares up with onset of colds and flus etc.......and the COLD in general....plus if have allergies then that doesnt help either..Paige has Hge allergy to dust...its a nightmare :(