Baby Wheezing??

We just went through this... he had some slight wheezing that was "mild asthma brought on be allergies" so ryan is now on childrens claritin...... and a puffer a couple times a day. the danger in not treating it is it turning into something else. pneumonia, ear infection, whatever other unpleasant ailment comes from not treating when the illness is new. the ragweed right now is very high!! we moved from FL last december, so like your son, this is ryan's first exposure to "whatever's in the air in dallas in september/october" ya know??

this link has been helpful for us. you can view the allergen counts for different areas. http://www.aaaai.org/nab/index.cfm

hope he feels better soon!

~ t

I definitely recommend taking him to the doctor ASAP. Three weeks ago my 2 1/2 year old woke up acting fine but less than 4 hours later, he was wheezing heavily. I took him to Cook Children's ER & the first time they measured his blood oxygen level it was 82%. After a blood test, we found out he had 'walking pneumonia' caused by mycoplasma. He never had a fever. Just seemingly sudden onset wheezing. He was in the hospital for 3 days. Now he is fine!

Chances are your baby doesn't have this. If a 3 month old is wheezing for just about any reason, I would recommend taking him to his pediatrician. Good Luck!

You should go see the pediatrician. My twin boys have had some wheezing that has hung on after colds. Two different pediatricians have told me that some virus that has gone around this year does have a tendency to cause almost asthma like symptoms after the cold is gone; the baby may need to take some breathing treatments and you would need to watch to be sure it does not turn into pneumonia. I had to put my boys on antibiotics for a couple of weeks and one of them has pretty much cleared up his cough but the other still has a heavy hacking cough at night only. No other symptoms. They did wheeze for a while and that's why I had to give them breathing treatments. But you need a trip to the pediatrician.

I have a friend with a daughter in the PICU at Cook's downtown and she said that walking pneumonia is going around like crazy there! The ID doctor said that there are a lot of cases right now so beware! Take him in just in case...

Call and talk to your pediatrician if you can.

Also, turn the bath water on all the way to hot in one of your bathrooms. Create lots of steam and sit in there with him for a while. This was recommended to me by our pedi when my daughter had similar issues when she was an infant. The steam will help clear up their lungs.

Good luck, I hope it doesn't end up being something serious!

-Char