DS has asthma...well, we don't have an 'official' diagnosis, but the Resp specalist we are seeing says she can't give us one until he is 5 and she can do more testing, and he hasn't had an asthma attack as yet.
He is on flixotide 2 puffs twice daily, which has changed him from waking up every single night for 8 months coughing, to being able to sleep through, and he doesn't has such a wet cough all the time anymore. When we gets a cough he apparently has a wheeze, but i can hear it?
Anyway, when we had a sleep study done it was very warm in the hospital (he was off the flixotide for a few days to see what happen (which i know found out he has to be off it for a while to get it all out of the system), and he still slept through perfectly - but here if i miss a night giving it to him, he is back to coughing.
So i'm wondering what i can do to help his breathing at home? I hate putting on the heater (its not cold in their room, probably around 18deg on an average night), because i know if i sleep with the heater on all night i wake up with a headache and being so dehydrated.
What about humidifiers? What do they do? Do they work?
Anything else i can do, both in his room and general?
On coolish nights here (which is 18 degrees for us) I have used the vapouriser in Emily's room to act as a heater.
Does he sleep on a pillow? Keeping his head slightly raised is a good idea. And always keep his chest warm.
HTH.
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Childhood asthma... Humidifiers and other qns.
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