Background: Over the past few weeks, my son has been treated for respiratory problems. We've have a nebulizer for breathing treatments, tried steroids, switched formula, had a chest x-ray, and even tried treating his acid reflux to see if that fixes the problem. Our last doctor visit, he sounded really good, so the doctor pushed his next appointment off a week and a half (3/16/09) to make sure that his improvement wasn't just related to the steroids.
Yesterday was six-month-old Logan's first day in Sunday School and all was going fine. He didn't seem to notice I wasn't there. Half way through class, however, his teacher popped into my daughter's class where I was and told me Logan was pulling really hard and coughing a lot. His teacher tried standing him in front of the open freezer to open his airways. Still struggling, we called the medical team and gave him oxygen which helped get us home. He screamed the entire way home because the sun was in his face and for the first time, I was grateful he wasn't asleep.
I guess what I want to know is... besides the obvious advice of talking to his doctor, have any of your children gone through breathing problems and what, besides medical treatments, did you do to help ease his struggle for breath?
