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!
To Rae, that stupid b*tch at the bottom, you don't know what the f*ck you're taking about. Allergies don't get better by repeated exposure, asswipe. You need to STFU and educate yourself, you hippy "naturalist." I hope that when you have a kid, and you are in denial that it has life-threatening health problems, that you just ignore it and it dies.
Oops! I didn't realize that you were a chink dyke. Sorry, that explains your odd behavior. Have fun being a squint-eyed sinner for the rest of your life. DYKE! LMAO!
-nancyisrich
She may have Asama or blood cancer.
-jedimorgana
Sounds like allergies, but there are a lot of things it could be. Some children have nightmares and it might have been from being scared and crying. My roommate's daughter will have night terrors and she will scream for a really long time, which can cause a kid to have a hard time breathing normally. I'd say she should definitely be in to see a doctor, as it really could have been asthma, allergies or anything.
-Jenny Li
Convince your sister to take her to get a second opinion, or check for different tests. It can be something that you would never expect besides asthma. She can have an infection somewhere possibly her lungs....
A lot of times Doctors will diagnose Asthma because it fits a lot of symptoms and they aren't always trained to look for the real reason, just whatever make sense.
-Cayleigh B
well i think you are right...i dont have asthma but i kno that you really struggle for breath and small children do get in a state wen theyre not very well...if she waz having a bit of an allergic reaction i think this would be likely to happen...especially if the pollen is really bad.
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