Gear & Toys: Toddler, Albuterol

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Viral-Induced Asthma Rescue/Sick Plan (Albuterol)

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!! So, my 2.5 year-old gets asthmatic with every cold, which can lead to ER visits and also coughs that can last all fall or winter long. So for daily prevention, we're on Flovent 2 puffs a day (was twice a day for a month and then stepped down to once daily) and Singulair once a day. At the very first sign of a cold, we are supposed to start Albuterol puffs via spacer 4 times a day every 4 hours (not overnight tho). The plan says to do the 4 puffs/4 hours for 5-7 days. The Albuterol definitely helps and the...

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10 Month Old Son with Occasional Congestion

I have a 10 mo son that started having RSV-like symptoms when he was 3 mo (January) and would go through a bad bout of them each month afterwards until he was 6 mo old (April). After that last time in April, the symptoms would just linger around mildly and he would sound good 1 or 2 weeks, then sound congested again. And on and on. We did the breathing treatments (Albuterol and Pulmicort) around the clock when he was really bad and then when the symptoms were just mild, we would do breathing treatments as needed. We were in and out of...