Acid Reflux & GERD: Preschooler, Albuterol

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Asthma or Acid Reflux?

Okay, I asked all of you a question the other day about my almost 3 year old son and his severe cough but here is another... To give a little from the other question: My son has always gotten a bit of a cough when he runs around too much. Nothing bad. He has really bad seasonal allergies of which he has seen the allergist for and gets allergy meds for. For the last two weeks he has developed a severe cough. It's not all the time but when it hits he coughs so severely and for so long that he ends up vomiting all over the place. The...

Signs & Symptoms

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4 Year Old Son with Allergies/asthma

My 4 year old son was recently diagosed with allergies associated with asthma. He gets a persistant cough this time of year and in the fall. The cough sometimes causes him to vomit. He has had allergies since he was a baby, however, the asthma part of this is new to me. I feel uneasy about it because he seems to be on lots of medication now. We have a nebulizer and he inhales albuterol twice daily. He also has nasonex, zyrtec and singulair. Zyrtec was the most effective, but now doesn't seem to work as well--this is when he was given...