URGENT HELP! Could this have been an asthma attack???? I'll pick Best Answer today!?Hi! I just heard about something that happened to my niece, and as her mother (my sister) is very neglectful, I'm trying to see what this was. She is 2.5 years old, and she was diagnosed with food/nut allergies (we're talking anaphylaxis), but her environmental allergies came back negative (she had some kind of blood test though, not the scratch/prick tests like I've had in the past). Anyway, her mother took her outside ALL day where the pollen is TERRIBLE around here, and she has a history of getting ill after being outside (runny nose, sneezing, needing a nebulizer, but they wouldn't quite call it "asthma")... hence the reason why her doctors were baffled that her allergy tests came back negative. Anyway, what happened yesterday was no different.
At midnight, she woke up crying, and when her mother went in to see what was wrong, she said that she was doing some sort of gasping/fast breath/ sucking her bottom lip in when she inhaled kind of thing. ...continued below....
She has never done this before, or at least not to my knowledge. My sister (and here is where the neglectfulness comes in) didn't call 911, but instead gave her Zyrtec and put her back in her crib. I guess that eventually she fell asleep. My mother (who is also my sister's mother, obviously), believes that it was 100%, undoubtedly an asthma attack. I however (and I have SEVERE asthma), say that maybe she had a little bit of throat swelling if she was allergic, but if her 'asthma attack' was so bad that she was gasping for air, A) she wouldn't have been able to cry, and B) she wouldn't have fallen back asleep and woken up fine this morning... so I concluded that maybe her gasping/sucking her lip in was from hysterically crying (you know how kids do that?), and maybe the crying was caused by a mild airway discomfort and allergies. She was not given any other treatment (just the Zyrtec) so I don't see how an asthma attack that severe could have just gone away on its own.
What does it sound like happened here? Thank you very much for your time!
Rob, she would have already been back at the doctors if she was my child, but she's NOT my child. I will be calling DSS if this continues...
Thanks to everyone so far. It actually isn't the doctors fault (I go to her myself and she is one of the best and most thorough doctors I've ever met in my life). The problem is my SISTER! The doctor tells her to do something, and she completely disregards it. When she was told by the doctor that she had allergies to egg white, what did she do? Why, nothing other than giving her egg whites (REPEATEDLY), meanwhile her daughter breaks out in hives.
She has >>SERIOUS<< denial problems about her child's health.
Additionally, the reason why she was doing the nebulizer was some kind of upper respiratory tract infection or something, because the doctor said that the "asthma" was just temporary.
-Rob
take her back into the doctor
-tsoto_soto
Before I was diagnosed with Asthma I had a couple of attacks where I was gasping for breath and my chest was on fire, and it did eventually go away on it's own (we didn't have insurance so I just toughed it out), so it could have been an attack. I can see it having been the end of a crying jag too, though. Maybe she should be checked out just in case.
-Melissa A
Oh my goodness, take her to a different doctor...if she is taking breathing treatments from a nebulizer, she HAS asthma! My son is 4 and he got asthma at 2....if she does what she did last night again, take her staright to an ER!!! This is a serious matter and should not be taken lightly, her doctor sounds like he has no idea what the heck he is talking about...
-yutoko
yes off course asthma attach could happen. especially when u have a background history. i suggest to hr a frequent rest in every activity then isolate her from dusting area, follen, and maybe minimize the activity. thirsty is one of a sign, if u see him thirts dnt give her water, it would'nt help, u must suggest to lick inly her lips,
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