Prednisone Prescribed to My 8 Month Old....

Two of my 4 children have asthma, and my oldest son had his first asthma attack at 3 weeks old. He had 3 courses of prednisone during his childhood (now 18) and outgrew the asthma by age 10 as most boys do if it is indeed childhood asthma. If you are uncomfortable with the prednisone, call your pediatrician, however it is a descending dose and is safe for children or the doc would not have given it, they don't give it out lightly, trust me, I have been through everything there is with breathing from having my 8 month old taken by paramedics from his crib to the ER to surgeries. Talk to your own doctor with anything he does that makes you uncomfortable, you need to be able to express your concerns to him or he won't be able to address your concerns directly. Going to get a second opinion isn't serving your child's best interest, if your pediatrician knows your son best.

You have to realize all medications work differently on each individual. Log onto www.askapatient.com and enter his meds. Read through everyones reactions and see if this is happening to your son. My daughter had a Pulmacort and that is how I found the website. At age 15 months she acted like a depressed adult. It was pretty hard to detect because babies cry, but it was little more than just crying it was constant.

Anyway, if you can find a way to treat him that works without meds, do so, but if he has a breathing condition and other methods are not working give him his meds...he has to breath. My whole family had asthma and I have read so many people comments about natural methods and no meds, but when I can't breathe, I take my meds.

I have blacked out from my asthma before, so please do not fool around with it. Watch for you childs breathing to be wheezy or labored. What I mean by labored is you will see the stomach, chest or collar bone area move/pump with every breath. When you see the labored breathing they have gone too far.

Best of luck. C.

I'd grt a second opinion. That's a pretty serious drug. I've NEVER heard of it being prescribed for a baby (or any of those other drugs either!) best, H.

I have personal experience with prednisone, not from my son but but I have had to take it on several occasions. It causes you to become hyper, sometimes loose the ability to sleep, and gain some weight. It suppresses your appetite so you feel hungry all the time. I would double check that it is a correct dosage for her age and find out if there is anothr alternative.

I would definitely question why such a strong glucocorticosteroid is prescribed at this stage in what appears to be a possible cold/allergy. Have you asked for the rationale and any alternative medication you could try first? I'm sure you have a competent Ped, but you do have the right to question, and to go with a therapy that you feel comfortable with. You could speak with a pharmacist (or two) too, to get a feel for what to expect from it and what side effects your little one may experience using it.

Get some Alfa CF homopathic medicine (herbal). It works great. watch these manmade products , for it can do more harm than good.. Check out the side effects on the products that dr subcribes, they don't tell you all the side effects and a baby can be harmed more than an adult of fighting off something bad. Homopathic medicine can be given to an infant. There are no side effects. I use this myself and it works wonderfully.Hope your baby gets better.

The prednisone will help to reduce the inflammation to help him breathe easier. Wheezing is not something to mess around with. It means your child is not breathing as well as he should. If your doctor feels it is necessary then give it to him. Your doctor is a medical professional with tons of training and you should take the advice of him/her instead of listening to people with no medical training and who have never even evaluated your child. If you still have some concerns then voice them to your pediatrician.

hmmm thats interesting i looked it up and prednisone does basically the same thing albuterol does (lowers inflamation). is this a liguid steriod? my daughter (16mos) has asthma and uses a nebulizer also. when shes sick she gets the albuterol every for hours or when she has too much coughing. also she gets a prevenative steriod called pulmicort (she gets this sick or not). now im assuming that your mil had that reaction because they dont typically give it to children that young right? because i know with the pulmicort my pharmisist called my daughters dr to make sure the prescription was correct becuase they dont reccamend giving a steriod so strong to your babies. all it did to my daughter was hype her up a little bit. she was also put on a 3 day oral steriod but i dont remember what it was called, her dr didnt give it to her it was given by another dr. all i know is that it had a higher risk of side affects so maybe it was prednisone too i dont really know. anyways im sure your babies dr knows what he/she is doing and you should try it. im not too sure about herbal ways all i can really suggest is a cool mist humidafire in his room. good luck i hope this helps!