Your Experiences with Toddler's Multiple Infections.

My oldest has had pneumonia several times. He's 14 now, and our doctor told us that once a person has pneumonia, he's more susceptible to getting it again.

The first time my son got it, it was the worst. He was 7, and it took a full month for him to recover. It also weakened his immune system, and he kept catching everything that year. The other two times he's had pneumonia, he got over it a bit more quickly, maybe two weeks or so.

I'm sorry your little one is so sick. I hope he feels much better soon.

my son once had the flu for the whole month of Nov. there were two strains floating around and he got both of them back to back.

It will probably take about a week for him to feel better. Remember to push fluids. Esp. water, and pedialyte.

My son had pneumonia when he was two. He was actually hospitalized for a couple of days because his oxygen level wasn't at the level they wanted. He got nebulizer treatments around the clock while in the hospital, as well as antibiotics. It was then that he was also diagnosed with asthma. After he was released from the hospital, we did nebulizer treatments about 4 times a day with albuterol. We also did budesonide nebulizer treatments as a maintenance asthma medicine.

I don't recall exactly how long it was until he was himself again, but it wasn't as long as some of the others have experienced. I'd say it was more like 2-3 weeks after being discharged. But the flu can really knock out a little one. My other child recently had a stomach flu and even though he only threw up for a 24 hour period and didn't have a fever, he was out of it for a week.

I can imagine the pneumonia and flu together would really do a number on him and it would take a while to recover.

As a side note regarding your son's asthma, I found the nebulizer treatments did wonders for my son's coughing. Prior to the asthma diagnosis, he would have terrible lingering coughs after every cold. Now with the budesonide maintenance medicine given regularly, the coughing is highly minimized. Getting a cold or other illness is not that big a deal anymore. If your son frequently has coughing issues when he gets sick because of his asthma, you might want to consider talking to an asthma specialist and asking if a maintenance asthma medicine might benefit your son. Maintenance medicines for asthma are not fast acting...they work best when they are taken on a regular basis before getting hit by an asthma trigger. My son's asthma is mostly triggered by illness so we do maintenance medicine during flu season and go off of it in the summer...unless we see signs of him getting a cold or flu. Aside from some difficulties of getting him to do the treatments due to normal toddler rebellion, it's made a big difference in our household.

Unfortunately, pneumonia packs a punch.. It will be several weeks before
he is back to himself. However, you should see improvement every day.
Little ones are pretty incredible and can surprise you. Maybe it will be just
two weeks, but don't count on that. Feel better little one.

When my son was a baby he had it for about a month. Unfortunatly Pneumonia is not a quick healing thing. He may only be on antibiotics for 12 days but the caugh will last longer more than likly. I don't remember how long it took for him to get his appetite back cause it's been a while. Just keep doing what the dr says and you should be good.

Good luck and God Bless!!!