my 15 month old has asthma we had to switch doctors with him right know he is on flovent twice daily. seems to be working right know.anybody have any tips or suggestions on how to maybe control it.

My 12 month old also has asthma also. He was diagnosed at 10 months. He is on pulmicort twice a day, Xopenex as needed for wheezing. We started out on Albuterol but he reacted badly so our doctor switched the meds. We use Dr. Sandavol at Winter Haven Clark and Daughtrey and love her. He has had a few attacks that have been bad enough to concern us and she has always seen us right away. If I call and tell them I feel like he needs to be seen they ask how fast can you get here? Last Wednesday was his one year check up; she went ahead and referred us to All Childrens clinic in Lakeland to get his blood work done for allergy testing. It was a simple blood test and they will be able to tell us if allergies are making his condition worse, they are also going ahead and testing his blood for food allergies as these can make asthma worse. She started him on Singulair, we will start that this week. My husband and I wanted to wait until he got over the after affects from his normal shots before introducing a new med. My niece takes it and she was able to stop her breathing treatments and has not needed them since, so we are hopeful that will work out for us. Trying to convince a one year old to hold still and breathe deep is a pain, so all treatments are done while he is sleeping. That means getting up at 6 am since he is always up around 6:30. I grew up with two sisters who have severe asthma. My sister is actually allergic to Adrenalin and most fast acting asthma meds have some artificial form of this. So attacks for her are extremely serious. My husband is having to learn about triggers and how they can cause an attack. Luckily our son is baby sat by my mother and she already has a great understanding of this. I don’t know if you are aware of this but preservatives such as sulfites can cause attacks. My sister actually had an attack when we were in college that put her in the hospital and it was from eating the seafood sub at subway. The Doctor told her that type of stuff was full of sulfites. Growing up my mom made everything from scratch to avoid theses type of issues. Its a common joke among my friends that I did not know what a box of hamburger helper was until I went off to college My sister has been able to control her asthma medication free for several years now. That is the goal for us with our son. I would love to find someone to bounce ideas off of about what is helping and what’s not.

my son was on pulmicort 2 times daily but didnt work so they swithced him he takes albuterol as needed he has had asthma ever since he was a month old he has had some bad attackes he just got out of the hospital about two anh a half weeks ago for it.he stays with his godmother while i work and her son has it but he is 16 now. he does pretty good with his breathing treatments he will help hold the mask. i have also heard that milk is not good for them my son goes to the dr next week so i am going to ask them about that.i will keep u posted on that.i will have to ask his dr about the allergies test i think he has them

My son Breton had bronchitus all the time prior to being even a year old, they sent us to All Children's and found out it was Asthma. He was on pulmicort and then albuterol daily for a couple years, and then all the sudden he was just better. The doctor had us kind of slowly take him off the medication and he is fine now. He is almost 6, and has never had another issue with bronchitus or asthma. I know this is not always the case. It is very serious and scary, but it is good to know that some kids do grow out of it at some point.

Hi ladies ... I have one piece of info that these docs won’t tell you. Take care of the kiddos teeth. Flovent, pulmacort all of those you must teach the little ones to play a neat game. After every treatment they need to put a little water in there mouth and spit a few times and have their face washed if they used a mask. Do everything in your power to get them GOOD vitamins (not Wal-Mart brand those are synthetic) with calcium that is not derived from oyster shells and sunshine (vitamin D). I have been on asthma meds my whole life and no one ever told my mother that the meds they were giving me would be detrimental to my baby teeth AND my adult teeth. Research fluoride. It should not be swallowed. It should be a rinse and spit scenario not the stuff you find in the store marked nursery water. Sorry this just hit a nerve I know I sound like a raving banshee but I'm 28 and have only 6 teeth left.

One note about Singulair: I love it. Research the side affects. Some kids will get mood swings, rage attacks and ADHD type symptoms. My son did for a while but those symptoms did stop. And if your wee one does go on it don’t let it run out. Missing one to two doses could cause a rebound or withdrawal asthma attack. Children on it for longer than a month (or three months?) should have there dose stepped down to reduce the likelihood of rebound affects. GOOD thing is, it works!

Breathing treatments: Inhalers with spacers and a mask take 1-2 min and work 200% more effectively than a nebulizer.

Some asthma meds are based in ingredients derived from or similar to shellfish (iodine) and/or peanuts.

So much for "one piece of info"!!! LOL

Amanda