Bronchiolitis!?!?!

[Anonymous]

Hello my friends. Well, Evie was back at the ped today for the wet cough that has persisted for over one month now. We also just treated an ear infection that developed from it. I thought when he put her on the amox., it would have knocked out the cough somehow, but no. Last night, Evie coughed so hard, she threw up her dinner. We changed the sheets and she did it again. So, enough was enough and today, I was told that while her ears are now “crystal clear”, Evie has bronchiolitis. Nebulizer treatments 3X/day with Xopenex. As soon as I turned on the nebulizer, she freaked and got so scared of the noise that she cried and buried her face into me. The nurse didn’t give her the mask kind b/c she said infants just try to tear it off. Does anyone have any advice for how to get her to use this thing. Anyone have success stories with the nebulizer. I’m not looking forward to this…

[Anonymous]

We have the one that you can just hold in front of their faces. we would put on a show, or I would show Carter me giving it to myself first, so that he would want it. (he wants everythign I have). It can be tough, but know that even if she is crying, she is taking breaths , so she is getting a good portion of the med.

I know not the best advice, but hopefully she will get past it soon.

Hang in there!

Ann Marie

[Anonymous]

Hope she’s feeling better soon. That sounds terrible.

[Anonymous]

Alana had bronchiolits a few months ago. We were only treated with predisolone syrup and some ventalin (through an inhaler/spacer). We used to let her have the inhaler to play with so she got used to it and it made it so much easier when she had to have the ventalin. SOrry I’m not familiar with the masks. She was very very sick for a few days and it was awful so I sympathise entirely. Hopefully she will pick up soon. I’m with Ann Marie on the crying bit…at least she is inhaling it and no doubt she feels just awful and like crying anyway!

[Anonymous]

I don’t have any good ideas, just empathy. Alex has had to have nebulizer treatments several times. We’ve let her play with the mask, hold it herself, etc, but she still hates it and fights it violently every time we do a treatment. It takes both of us to give her a treatment. Sorry that I couldn’t be more help.

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