Asthma: Puppets

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Need Advice on Giving Breathing Treatments

Ok mamas, my sone has asthma and is required to do breathing treatments on a regular basis. He fights my husband and I everytime. Any advice on how to get him to do the treatments? I've tried buying the dinosaur looking mask and that didn't work. He also snores really loud. Like a grown man. I've tried running the humidifier and everything else the pediatrician has reccomended. Do you think the snoring is something more serious? Or just the congestion? He'll be two in November and has been doing breathing treatments since he was...

Asthma Medication

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18 Month Old Fights the Breathing Treatment

Ever since my sons first cold, he has been wheezing. Everytime he gets a cold it goes straight to his lungs. (We always seem to have a check up right when he gets a cold) He is always in good spirits and it has not affected his eating. I have rarely heard the wheezing, just the doctor. When the cold goes away we are back to business as usual. He has no allergies or any other problems. The doctor wants him to have Albuteral every 4-6 hours and a breathing treatment of Pulmicort once a day. He fights these treatments by kicking, screaming and...