toddler with bad chest

curver

My son is one and a half and since he was 10weeks old has had problems with his chest. He has been into the hospital and has been tested for everything under the sun and everything came up negative. His chest gets particularly bad when he is teething badly. The hospitals answer to his chest was (since he was 6months old) to put him onto steroids once a day and inhalers twice a day for the forseeable future. I personally did not agree with putting so much medication into a small developing body that i went down the homeopathic route instead. This has worked but i would say is not 100% effective either.

Am just wondering if anyone else has any experience of this and what they did?

also forgot to mention that officially in the hospitals records they listed my son has having viral broncillitis.

cbyrd

My middle girl got tonsillitis every time she got a tooth, she was on 12 anti-biotics in 15 months. I was quite insistant with my gp that they should be removed but she refused to refer her. She had scarlet fever too, what i didn't realise was the tonsils are essential to the immune system til they're 3. I waited it out and it and now she's fine. The GP said she'd review her when she was 5 and see then if she needed them out..she was very small for her age too, this was caused by the amount of anti-biotics she was on but as soon as she grew out of it she caught up to normal.
My eldest girl used to get really bad chest infections and was given a steriod and 2 inhalers aswell when she was about 2 after she was hosptalised with a broncil infection. I didnt' use the inhalers except when she had a very bad cold once or twice at night time to ease her breathing. Asthma was her offical diagnonis but 10 years on i haven't used the inhaler in about 9 years
My youngest get a snotty nose and a cough when he's getting a tooth, i always know when there's a tooth coming, so i just use the likes of karvol and nurofen. thank god he hasn't been as bad as the girls yet

curver

Thanks cbyrd for your reply.
My older daughter never had these health probs so it's a bit different for me this time around! The hospital ran all their tests and came up with nothing, and they had no problem with me using the homeopathic route as they were leaving him tip he is about 2 and a half before they were willing to maybe discuss asthma. My son dies not NEED the inhaler, if I thought he did I would do it but we have tried the inhaler and it makes no difference to his chest. Homeopathy defo does more for him but I wonder if anyone tried any other options that they found worked...?

Isadore

My 1 year old had a chronic cough for weeks and our GP suggested antibiotics, although saying it was a viral infection. We tried homeopathy and his cough cleared up within a few days. Despite all the dissent around Homeopathy I would definitely give it a try.

ztoical

Isadore wrote: »

My 1 year old had a chronic cough for weeks and our GP suggested antibiotics, although saying it was a viral infection. We tried homeopathy and his cough cleared up within a few days. Despite all the dissent around Homeopathy I would definitely give it a try.

It's water, you can get it out of the tap if you want to give it a try :rolleyes:

eviltimeban

Wow, we were the exact same recently. He's just 13 months but since Sept has had a bad cough. What worked for us was Ventolin. Its a syrup that is on prescription, but it really worked to help clear his chest and stop his cough. The inhaler did not work AT ALL.

We also went in to Temple St for an Xray but it was all clear. Had the same prognosis, viral infection, bronchial wheeze, asthma etc, but none of them are really diagnosable when they so young. But the Ventolin really helped in our case anyway and now he's sleeping well and not coughing any more.

cynder

eviltimeban wrote: »

Wow, we were the exact same recently. He's just 13 months but since Sept has had a bad cough. What worked for us was Ventolin. Its a syrup that is on prescription, but it really worked to help clear his chest and stop his cough. The inhaler did not work AT ALL.

We also went in to Temple St for an Xray but it was all clear. Had the same prognosis, viral infection, bronchial wheeze, asthma etc, but none of them are really diagnosable when they so young. But the Ventolin really helped in our case anyway and now he's sleeping well and not coughing any more.

Same here, with the eldest syrup worked and she had a chest infection every time she cut a tooth. My other two are the same but the syrup doesn't work, we use both preventative and reliever inhalers (not all the time, only when needed). No xrays taken. They are doing very well now.

A 2.5 year old girl down the road was very like my boys and the GP said asthma for the last 20 months and she had a turn for the worse just before xmas and ended up in the high dependency unit and after 2 weeks she was diagnosed with CF.

lynski

my son used to get 'upper respiratory tract' infections with every tooth too from about 6/7 mths for 4/5 mths and we were given anti-bs over and over again, even ventolin syrup at one point too. I stopped going to doc each time and used homeopathy and wrapped him up more. Obviously if he had a temp or other additional symptoms I took him to doc.
when he was teething I would put an extra layer on him and put a bib inside as well as over his clothes and made sure that the childcare workers knew to keep him dry and warm. my 2 are not great milk drinkers, but i would cut out milk as well to reduce mucus. plenty of hot baths at night for steaming too.
You will know yourself when your child is ill and otherwise common sense goes a long way.