aargh!

[Anonymous]

So…after a couple of weeks of Robbie doing so much better on Sunday a front moved in and he started coughing again! I swear he has allergies or something. It seems to come and go with the rain (we get no snow this year, just miserable rain) and he never has a fever and doesn’t exhibit other symptoms except being stopped up and coughing. Anyway, he had a six month appt yesterday but it turned into a sick visit b/c he is coughing again! We got a referral to an asthma and allergy doctor so hopefully we will get things straightened out.

I don’t really feel like this belongs in boo-hoo but can’t think of where else to place it. He is doing so well otherwise, sitting up like a champ, going in circles (beginning stages of “crawling”) and learning to eat solids three meals a day. It’s just this nagging cough that we can’t get rid of. Does anyone have any experience with environmental allergies and what the symptoms are? Any advice on how to tell if he really has asthma or allergies rather than just a series of colds?

Thanks for everything you all do!

Sarah

[Anonymous]

My oldest has terrible allergies. I too thought it was a cold
that he could never get rid of, same symptoms that you’re
describing. This fall, I was visiting with the team doctor for my
husband’s football team (he’s a sports medicine/internal medicine doc)
and he heard Nate coughing all the time. I just made the comment
that he couldn’t get rid of this cold. He checked him out and
said it looked more like allergies to him. He gave us a month of
samples of Singulair and within 3 days Nate was so much better.
We now give it to him as needed but it’s been a life saver.
Hopefully the allergy doctor will be able to help Robbie out!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info. We went to the allergy/asthma doc yesterday and Robbie has asthma. He is on Sungulair, Duoneb, and Pulmicort for a while until it is all under control, and then they will probably start taking away some of the meds. I am so happy to just have an answer. I felt so bad for him having a cold for what seemed like three months straight. Hopefully we will get him back on track now!

[Anonymous]

Haggis, my 6 year old is the same way, he has been ever since he was a baby, every time it rains or the weather changes, he geta a cough and sounds like he has a cold, I know it’s not contagious cause I never get sick. We’ve been through the allergy and asthma specialists also, and he does have a nebulizer as he tends to get pnemonia (fluid in his lungs not true pnemonia) in the winter, and he has a rescue inhaler ,and alergy meds, but he doesn’t need them year round (we also live in gerogia and if georgia is famous for one thing it’s friggen pollen and allergies) Aside from that he has grown up a happy active little boy, and he began to get used to his little coughing episodes and now they never bother him, also kids usually grow out of this kind of stuff and he’s MUCH better than he was 3 years ago!!!!! he hardly ever needs the inhaler anymore, so no worries asthma and allergies won’t necessarily impede your son from doing whatever he wants, mine plays soccer and t-ball and runs around just like his friends, and although I hate to hear him cough, like I said he takes it all in stride!

[Anonymous]

Sarah

I am glad you got an answer!! I am sure he will get better soon…

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