Is this normal for a 20month old baby

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Hi All,

I am new to these boarRAB, but need some reassurance.

My little girl who is 20months old has just been prescribed Ventolin Salbutamol (with the spacer).

It all started in Nov last year when she caught a cold, then developed a cough that has never gone away.

She has gone from sleeping 12hours a night down to 7-8hours sleep a night as that's when the coughing gets worse.

Last week I went back to the GP's (this is my 8th visit) and they agreed to try her with an inhaler.

Well as you can imagine putting a spacer on a 20month old baby face is a struggle, so we have now resorted to doing this 'when she sleeps', the problem I have is that it has not made any difference at all.

The other problem is that she has now caught another cold, and her cough has just got 100% worse.
Today she woke at 6am & has not stopped coughing until NOW, went back to the GP's & was told to be patient :mad:

I know that her cold is making the situation worse, but is it NORMAL for a child to be coughing since 6am till now.
She has vomited 6 xs today with all the coughing, and I am just getting so distressed seeing her like this. I just don’t know what else to do.


Just need some reassurance if this sis normal & that things will calm down when her cold goes away, or do I need to seek further advise:confused::(

Any advice is greatly appreciated.
 
Sadly, I can relate. My son, who is now 5, was diagnosed with asthma when he was around 9 months old. Started the same way. He caught a cold and the cough just wouldn't go away. We're still in the same boat. Every winter when he catches a cold his asthma shoots off the charts. We are currently dealing with a particularly nasty bout of it right now (was about to post a question of my own but wanted to reply to you also.)

He has had a nebulizer (?sp) since he was diagnosed. At one point they gave him a spacer with an inhaler but I never saw the symptoms get any better when he was using that so I doubt he was really getting the medicine at all. One year the ARNP gave him a prescription for Singulair. It was a chewable pill that I gave him every night before bed. It's a preventive thing, not a "rescue" type med. But I would start giving it to him in the fall as soon as the colRAB would start going around and he had a GREAT winter that year. I'm currently fighting to get him another script for when this flare up is over but haven't been successful yet.

If you don't think she's getting any medicine out of the inhaler, ask about a nebulizer. You may have a rough time getting her to use it but she may get more of the medicine with that than the spacer/ inhaler set up. The meRAB my son takes are Pulmicort (preventive) and Xopenex to stop the coughing when it flares up. Might be worth asking about.
 
Sorry for my bad english my self is asthma .For cough you can put vicky on both feet leg it feel better.For medicine go buy asthmafen is to protect the lung this will make the cough stop .
 
My 27 month old daughter has just gone through the same thing. First, initially the treatment made things sooooo much worse. I now know that is because the medicine was breaking up all the gunk in her lungs so her coughing increased to try to clear it. Hang in there and give the medicine at least one week if not two before calling it a failure. Also, I would recommend that you ask your GP about a so-called "controller" medicine. The Ventolin will open up the airways, but won't do anything about the underlying inflammation. The controller medicine works to decrease the inflammation. The other thing I would recommend is that you see someone who specializes in pediatric asthma. Your child may need a burst of oral steroiRAB to work past this difficult flare-up. My daughter now has standing orders to start an oral steroid burst at the first sign of illness. This has helped keep us out of the ER.

As for the coughing, my daughter once coughed repeated over three hours before she was diagnosed. Cough variant asthma is so hard to control. To give you hope, my daughter is doing great and is off of the Ventilin entirely now that the controller medicine (Flovent) is working.
 
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