Sunday, April 19, 2015

Our Asthma Journey

Please note- We have a wonderfully supportive pediatrician.  He knows Bo well and has his best interest at heart.  Please do not take this as medical advice.  See your doctor and ask him/her to help you find options.

Bo has asthma.  He has had about 4 acute attacks in his life.  We treated the first three with oral steroids.  The third was in month 9 of TSW.  After that, I started researching and working with our pediatrician to develop a non-steroid acute plan.



This is what we came up with-

Medical treatment-

Singular daily during allergy season

Xopenex inhaled through the nebulizer every 4 hours (this works better than Albuterol for Bo)

Cromolyn Sodium inhaled through the nebulizer every 6 hours.

Serevent inhaler 2 times, 12 hours apart.  (This one is a little controversial because it is only supposed to be used with a steroid.)

Ibuprofen every 6-8 hours, especially during the first 24 hours.

The doctor told me to count Bo's breaths per minute.  He said often children can maintain a high pulse ox even when in distress.

Homeopathic Treatment in addition to medical treatment-

sovereign silver every 4 hours

feed him pineapple to reduce inflammation

diffuse RC oil in his room while sleeping



This protocol diffused his last acute attack.  Please talk to your doctor about your plan!  This is a good article with a chart at the bottom that gives treatment options. http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/asthma/print.html

1 comment:

  1. THANK YOU for sharing this! It is wonderful you were able to work with doctors to figure out a plan that does NOT require steroids. Breathing issues are scary, but there ARE other drugs that work to treat breathing issues. We used Racemic Epinepherine (nebulized epi) rather than steroids for a croup hospitalization. We use albuterol and now the cromolyn sodium as well, too. Thanks for all your help!

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