Thanks ladies for telling me of your experiences. I will keep him home tomorrow and get an asthma plan done up at the doctor. Just wondering though is it odd for an attack like this to occur out of the blue, assuming it is asthma? He is on singulair tablets but that was more to keep his Eustachian tubes open and put a stop to the ear infections. And would that be considered a bad/ serious asthma attack? They don't get much worse do they - not sure how I'd cope if they do!!