Hello
I just decided to change my topic to asthma in children. I was struggling with the other two topics that I previously chose, but this topic just hit me all of a sudden. My other two topic s was preventing teen pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome. Asthma in children hit close to home too, my daughter has asthma. You talk about scary it is real scary. Her asthma is controlled now. She takes so much medicine to keep it under control. She takes less now than she used to. Most of the medicine has steroids in it. She was a tiny baby, and all of a sudden she just blew up; now she's over weight. I think the steroids in the medicine has caused a lot of the weight gain, and the rest is her appetite. She's had the flu twice in her life and you talk about scary. She had it once when she was 1 year old and again last year at the age of 9. Last year was really scary for me because the doctor told me it was the swine flu. I never left her side. She has never had pneumonia thank God. She had the pneumonia vaccine. She had flu and the swine flu vaccine earlier this year. She seems to be doing fine, she is getting burned out on taking the medication everyday. I tell her it is a necessity not a choice.
Lakisha you are lucky. My daughter Cassie, she is 18 now. When she was 10, she had a horrible asthma attack. She was in the hospital for 5 days. It was scary. She was very well controlled until she started hearing the Advair commercials that say "can have risk of asthma related death". She now refuses any medication. She has problems when she exercises or gets a respiratory infection. But she still refuses medication. I have begged and pleaded. I have even taken her to see a respiratory therapist that was a friend of mine. Still no medication. I cuss at the TV every time I see commercials that list all the bad side effects. I understand the patients have the right to know but I also believe that "a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous"
ReplyDeleteHello BJ
ReplyDeleteI have seen that commercial, and it will scare someone. She needs to take some medication to help keep her asthma under control. I wish you good luck in convincing her to take her medication.