Now that the weather is warm enough for the kids to play outside, the dreaded asthma is back. I feel so bad for Charlie who loves to play outside but always comes in coughing and sometimes short of breath.
We are once again back on the daily regiment of breathing treatments and medication. It helps some but does not make it go away completely.
The good thing about this season is that Charlie is no longer fighting the breathing treatments. He will get the nebulizer himself and likes to squeeze the medication into it and turn on the machine. He will also hold the breathing tube himself for a lot of the treatment and even puts it in his mouth and breathes deeply.
It sure makes the three or more times a day treatments go a lot smoother. I still hope he grows out of this but with Dan using his inhaler just as much as Charlie is using the nebulizer, I doubt it will go away.
The next hurdle is getting him to use the inhaler the right way so he can have it at school in case he needs it. Quite a task since he cries at the sight of it.
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