So far none of my kids have asthma - Mr Wonderful is severely asthmatic and his siblings have it as does his mother. They also all have exzema except Mr Wonderful.
There is a strong familial occurance with asthma - is that the case for you?
Often it is triggered by an allergy. To housemites, dust, cats, pollens or food.
I have researched this until the cows came home - because I wanted to do all I could to prevent it in my children.
There is a very very strong link to gluten and dairy products and asthma. People with it should stay off those foods and ideally not begin them until they are over 2. My children I did this with and so far none have asthma. Mr Wonderfuls sisters 4 boys all have asthma and exzema. Of course that could be lots of things. But if she is eating gluten or dairy products I would keep her away. It really isn't too difficult once you get used to being wheat and dairy free (as well as gluten).
DD's wheeze was audible when the attack started, but by the afternoon on Day three we could not longer hear the wheeze, but by listening to her chest we could still hear it, she also had a lot of cracking and popping as she was fighting the infection.
I have a couple of friends whose children are diagnosed with asthma and they have a non audible wheeze, so as you have said it can only be heard by using a stethascope.
Unfortunately we found that the only way for us to get actual answers was taking her to hospital, and reinforcing that this wasn't normal. We were told that by our GP that some children don't actually show signs of haivng a lot of trouble breathing and the form of asthma they have is just the wet persistent cough (often referred to as a smokers or old man's cough), which is what we have, but it was the acute viral infection that caused the asthma to become uncontolled requiring the hospitalisation.
Has he had chest recessions, where when he is breathing he is drawing in his ribs to breathe rather than using his tummy, after exercising or during/after coughing episodes?
We didn't realise that she needed O2, she was saturating around 94/95, when we arrived (borderline for O2), desatting to 88 or so, but recovering to 92/93, but when she went to sleep she was desatting to 83 and not recovering very well. O2 sats get worse when sleeping or at night, exaserbating the cough, I am not implying that your DS is having problems, but I am pretty sure it is something that the sleep study would pick up.
I am sorry I can't help with any Melbourne specialist, wrong state, but I hope you can find someone soon to help you get some answers and solutions
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