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I have much information to share with you that you may want to consider. Although my child was not adopted he did suffer from bronchitis and was later diagnosed with having chronic asthma.
Please, please find a pediatrician who specializes in asthma or bronchial problems because a regular peditrician will not know what to look for and treat.
I took my son to three different pediatricians until I found one specializing in respiratory problems who changed my sons life.
This is what I had to do for my child for 12 years of his life.
One thing you need to know is that weather changes can really affect a child. Going from hot to cold or cold to hot. Drafts of cold air can cause bronchial problems immediatley. Something to avoid.
When you visit a respiratory specialist, they should be telling you that children or adults with bronchial problems must be on a maintenance plan to rid the bronchial problems. This may take years as it did with my son.
The pediatrician put my son on what is called a Nebulizer. This little machine contains a cup in which you place medication and then your child breathes into it. If the child is very small then you have to hold the mouthpiece for him/her to breathe in the meds. This literally has to be taken at least three to four times a day, but it works wonders. May cause child to be hyper, but it works.
Second, the inhalers that are given by the specialist must be given to the child on a daily basis not just when they are ill. You are trying to prevent the wheezing, bronchial problems etc... from occuring therefore, taking the inhalers peridoically on a daily maintenance schedule is a must.
All medications that are prescribed by a specialist are to be given throughout the day, again on a maintenance shcedule given to you by the physician.
If you follow the maintenance plan of a respiatory specialist your child will most likely continue to progress slowly until the immune system builds up and believe me it will.
I spent 12 long years taking care of a child that was at one time diagnosed with emphysema by an emergency care doctor at 2 years of age. It turned out that he had chronic asthma. He had bronchitis all of the time and had pneumonia 50 percent of the time. He was in the hospital every holiday for the first five years of his life. I know how draining it can be and I always asked the lord "why me, why did I have to have a child who was suffering so much". One day he answered my question.
This beautiful child was given to me "because only I had the strength to take care of a child this ill". I knew that was true because when my child was ill he only wanted to be with me because he knew that when he could not breathe I would get into action and begin doing everything I could to help him breathe again.
Contact a specialist imemdiately because I know from experience you may be going to a pediatrician who does not know how to treat chronic bronchial problems. If you need any other information, please let me know. I have so much more to tell you, but it would take a long time to write about it. You can PM me if you would like.
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Gigi
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