asthma part two

So Jake has beenhaving an inhlaer and to get it in, we virtaully have to sit on him. He gets hysterical and it is NOT a pleasant experience for anyone involved.
So we went to the doctor again. After gettting fobbed off by the doctors new "radius Palms", decided to go to City Doctors (for those of you not in Palmy - they were on the news for giving the wrong prescription drugs to a little girl - or at least the pharmacy was).
the doctor was FANTASTIC! Said that a diagnosis of asthma is under-3s actually has a 95% mis-diagnosis rate as so many other things cause those asthma like symptoms, so while he MIGHT have asthma, he also might not. I descirbed the dilema of the inhaler and he said not to worry, if it was getting him that upset it wasn't helping. Then gave me some medicine to clear up his chest. He was so good with Jake and Jake didnt' cry at all.
then we went over to the pharmacy, who obviously have had a shake up after the incident. The pharmacist came over and told me ALL about the drugs, when to take them, side effects, what to look for if he reacted to it. Asked me if I had any questions and told me to ringif I did later.
All in all, a fabulaous experince and we were in and out in less than an hour.
It cost me $8 there rather than free, but we got soooo much better service than last time
"he's got asthma - get out"
that I will go there again no problem - I now feel as though I am working for them in marketing.

its crazy the different help/service you can get aye?! my oldest girl has had asthma for coming up 1 1/2 years. and to start with we couldnt get the inhaler into her either, there was soo much struggle and i often had to get hubby home form work during the night to help me hold her down when she had asthma bad.
thankfully after her 3rd hospital admission she started to realise that the inhaler actually helped her and we were given a preventer and her asthma has been so good under control with no bad bouts for at least 6 months, she has her preventer morning and night and we give her her blue inhaler whenever she starts to show signs of a cold or slight wheeze.

asthma in kids is horrible, im sending you a virtual

take care, im pleased things are going better now.

Edited by mum2emj

It is horrible to have to hold your kids down to give them something while trying to explain that it will help them. I have that with jaidyn and his eye drops and now when he sees the bottle he freaks.
Good on you Liz for getting a second opinion. Sometimes I think doctors just give us a diagnosis to shut us up and send us on our way.
Im glad you have got it sorted now. You must feel soooooo much better

Jake had taken to asking for the inhaler. I thought he might like it if he could play with it. However, he hid it places. I found it in the bath a couple of times. monkey!

Thats great you got proper answers this time. We were told they couldnt diagnose ashma under 2 years old, they kept treating Kobe for it when he had bronchialitis but it made no difference and so far this winter he hasnt been sick so cant of been asthma. my 3 year old neice was diagnosed when she was about 2 and she definatly has it but seems happy with her inhaler thankfully.

crap - I was going to ask you how to get Joey to take his inhaler Liz!! We got given one today witha mask and tubey thing and he HATES it!!? Looks like he isn't the only one

Yeah sounds like a plan - will see how he goes tomorrow morning and toddle off to the doc - yet again!! I have been 3 times in a week!!

Plus the whole b/fing thing. Joey is STILL breastfed and is sick just as much as babies that aren't....

I hate "They"