Does My Daughter Have Asthma Or Bronchitis? Posted: 06-11-04 12:54pm
My 4-yr-old daughter has problems after
exercise (running around) or with a cold.
She gets coughing terribly and sometimes
cannot stop, tot he point of vomiting.
This is especially true when suffering a
cold. When she is not sick nor running
aorund, her breathing seems fine. She has
had this since she was a toddler. Our
doctor suggested thta it was allergies and
recommended giving her claritin syrup but
that didn't help at all. I think it's a
mild asthma.
Does anyone recognize this as asthma or
bronchitis? My father-in-law said this
happened with my husband as a child but
that he outgrew it. My daughter is just
old enough to start some sports. I worry
that her coughing will keep her from
participating.
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Venugopal
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Posts: 192 Location: India
Does My Daughter Have Asthma Or Bronchitis? Posted: 07-07-04 04:55am
The predominant symptom of bronchitis is
cough and that of asthma is
breathlessness. Your daughter is having
cough when she exerts herself leading to
vomiting and breathlessness which is an
evidence of her pulmonary function being
less than normal. Asthma is the
insufficient exchange of gases in the
lungs and bronchitis like condtion keep
intervening.
Homeopathic medicine has good remedies to
get rid of the cold, cough and
breathlessness due to exposure to cold or
due to allergies. As the time moves on
with treatment there would be an
improvement of
dr.Venugopal gouri.
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wakkochic17
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 494 Location: South Carolina
Posted: 07-08-04 19:44pm
It's probably normal when she is sick..
Some people are more susceptible to
getting congestion in their lungs when
they get a cold. I'm about the same.
However, when she exercises there is a
thing called "exercised induced asthma".
Basically it's asthma that flares up only
when you are exerting yourself pretty hard
such as running around. It may be wise
to mention it to the doctor so they can
give her an inhaler when she wants to
exercise. I have a mild form of it
myself.. Especially in colder weather..
If I try to run or do harder exercising my
lungs feel like they tighten up and I
start coughing and have trouble catching
my breathe. I always just treated it by
taking lots of breaks and not exercising
too hard.
