DD has had this persistent cough, residual from 3 bouts of croup and 2 bouts of bronchiolitis, we saw two different Dr's last week to make sure that it was nothing contagious, or either of the above again.

Yesterday I received a call from Daycare, they told me that DD woke up Wheezing and had coughing fits, where she stopped breathing and when she restarted she struggled to get going again, and became quite distressed. They calmed her down and said I didn't need to pick her up it was just a courtasy call.

So I called the Dr's and got her in 1 hour later. Picked her up, got into the Dr's and broke down in tears - had a bit of a bad day, was very tired from our trip and just completely over DD not having a break, it is just not fair.

The Dr looked at her full history (Mild Lung Disease at birth due to prematurity, croup, brochiolitis, two requiring hospital visits), listened to her chest and her nasty sounding cough watched her breathing, she was labouring and had a significant wheeze. He discussed asthma, and said that she was a high risk of getting it due to her list of respiratory infections over the past couple of months. There are two treatment options ventolin and/or oxygen.

We are now starting a trial starting with Ventolin. It is a 50:50 chance that this will work or not, as she may not have developed the muscles enough for ventolin to actually relax the airways and open them up.

She is starting on 4 puffs, four times a day, and overnight if required. We are doing this for a week and then reviewing how she has/has not recovered.

I am hopeful that the ventolin works as I am not sure what would happen if we had to look at introducing oxygen to aid the recovery. I know she is working hard with her breathing and it hurts to see her struggle again, I wish it wasn't so hard sometimes.

I guess we just want some answers and for DD to be able to enjoy life and spend time with her friends without being constantly sick and having to miss out.

Hope this next week flies by with some good news at the end

Has anyone else trialed ventolin this early, what happened and what was the next step? We are hoping that it does the job and then we can reduce the dosages.

TIA for any information/experience anyone can give us.