2 Year Old with Possible Asthma?

Hi D.,
My cousin's daughter had the same problem. She was on an inhaler as needed. But it wasn't solving the problem. What did help was gettting the toxins out of her home and cleaning up the quality of the environment she was in.

Here's some information you should know...

There has been a 28% increase in childhood cancer since the addition of pesticides into household products. (Source: National Cancer Institute)

Childhood Asthma has increased by more than 400% since 1980. Pesticides, formaldehyde, chlorine, and ammonia are common triggers. These are also known to cause cancer.

Home is where the chemicals are and we spend 80% of our lives indoors. The EPA found airborne Chemical levels in our homes were as much as 70% higher than outside.

Watch out for any lavendar scented baby products, if you read the back it will tell you not to use if you have asthma. This is becuase the chemical used to make this scent is known to trigger asthmatics.

Formaldehyde is in many of our shampoos, lotions and even Johnson & Johnson Baby Products it is disguised by chemical names most of us don't recognize such as Quaternium-15.

Anything in our home that says disinfectant on it has a registered pesticide in it as well as any bleach we use in our homes!

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Did the Doctor call it cough-variant asthma? If so, I can offer some advice and/or suggestions. Also, which pediatrician diagnosed her?

D.,
Is there any way you can take your 2 year old to an asthma/allergy specialist? I developed asthma at the age of 9 and the dr started me with med's and then it trickled in to a cabinet full of medicine. In the last year or two I went to a well known allergy/allergy specialist who took me off a lot of med's told me a lot of information I did not know (like nexium can help reduce my asthma because acid inflames the throat and irritates breathing). That is just my suggestion. My whole life I took 4-5 diffeent inhalers and pills and now I take 2. My dr. said some times regular pediatricians perscribe a lot of unneccessary med's because they just do not know. Hopefully this helps. Good luck with your little guy!

Sounds VERY much like asthma. This is how my daughter's attacks start. I, unfortunately, have a lot of experience with this with my 4 year old having been diagnosed at 18 months.

I would recommend either talking to a different dr. or this one about other treatments. Singulair is often used for the anti-leukocyte properties that come up at night but if this is happening during the day-- my guess is this is not going to do it for you.

Asthma is scary. I'm sorry. But don't mess with this.

Our daughter is now on several medications and has been not been in the ER since last July! Woo hoo.

We have found that chinese herbal medicine and accupressure has been HUGELY helpful as well.

If she has another episode-- try having her bite into a lemon... sounds weird but it's a natural bronchial dilator and may help relieve her for a little bit....

This sounds like my son. He was diagnosed with asthma at 8 months but it presented itself around 6 months. There is such a thing as coughing induced asthma. After spending the night in the hospital a couple of weeks ago I learned that the spring and fall are the worse times for asthmatics. Before this trip to the hospital he was given ambuterol treatments when needed (he had "attacks" as often as every 2 weeks) now he is on a maintenance treatment, pulmicort, and it has helped wonerfully! I no longer think that he could have an attack at anytime. He doesn't breath fast anymore, it's been 3 weeks tomorrow and no problem at all. Definitely talk to your doctor. He started the pulmicort in the hospital and once they got him under control he never coughed again. Talked to your doctor about getting a nebulizer so that you can give her treatments when you have flair ups. They are about $90. It's kept us out of the hospital MANY times.

asthma is usually characterized by wheezing, which is very different from coughing. Try tape recording her during a fit and let your doctor listen to get a better idea of what's going on. A week should be long enough.

I have asthma and I take singulair daily. also, I take an inhaler (Pro-Air -albuterol) that I use for emergencies. perhaps you can ask you doctor about this. I also have other meds that I take but a doctor would be best to direct you or you could see an allergist. Has she had a chest x-ray that may shed some light on the subject also. What about a humidifier in her room or an Aprilaire attached to the furnace? If the air in this house is dry it may start the coughing. What about her pillow on her bed covers. If it has feathers or something she is allergic to that may be why she coughs. You have to check out everything. It took me awhile to get things under control. Don't give up. Try everything within reason.

When my oldest daughter coughs (a kinda barky-type cough), I know she's having trouble breathing. I've had to train myself, but I can hear when she's wheezing. She doesn't always notice it (she's 10), but she's getting better. She takes an allergy pill (Claritin works for now) and takes pulmicort (inhaled) twice a day. She keeps a rescue inhaler with her at all times. That has been working so far. When she was younger, every time she had a cold, it would turn into bronchitis and she would be on breathing treatments of albuterol.

Are you sure about the trigger? My husband has exercise-induced asthma. His attacks almost always happen when he's doing some type of outdoor activity. He takes Advair every day and also carries a rescue inhaler at all times, but since he's been on the advair, he doesn't use it nearly as often.

I would say to keep going to your doc or get a referral to a specialist.