Breathing issues with my daughter

[Linda'smom]

I'll try not to rant too much. My 9 1/2 month old daughter has been sick for almost 3 months now. She is in daycare so naturally caught a cold, a cough and stuffy nose which seemed to get better, then got worse again. We took her to the doc who noticed some fast breathing and wheezing so he gave her a treatment with albuterol in a nebulizer. After noticing an improvement, we were sent home with a nebulizer and continued treatments. Bronchiolitis is what she was dx with. She was kept home for a few days and again seemed to be getting better. She then got worse, wheezing was louder, had retractions when breathing so we took her to the emergency room and was kept overnight. They gave her more breathing treatments and oxygen along with a steroid to reduce inflamation. I kept her home all that week and continued with the medication. She still has some wheezing, is still coughing. Her doc just put her on an antibiotic thinking she may have a sinus infection. Shes only been on that for 2 days and so far no improvement. She is not running any fevers, her appetite has been great through all of this, is playing, doing all normal things. She has been teething this whole time and does have a slight case of acid reflux. My husband has seasonal allergies and a mild case of asthma. Oh, and she was said to have Reactive Airway Disease in the hospital. Is it normal for a child like her to have a cough for this long? I suppose its possible that she inherited some of her dad's issues and it took a cold to set it off (asthma and allergies are genetic, right?)  So tired of her being sick.

[kimhutcheson]

Out of curiosity, did they put her on an antibiotic that is in the "c" family?  That's what they call it at the Dr's.  It's not in the penicillin family, but I think maybe for those who might be allergic to penicillin, they give this "c" family med.  The reason I ask:  my granddaughter, who also goes to daycare, had similiar problems...and they treated her with an antibiotic, which we were concerned with mama being allergic to penicillin, they gave her the "c" stuff.  Well, her breathing got really weird....the longer she was on it, the stranger it got.  So we took her back.  Dr then thought maybe she had asthma, so they presecribed albuterol.  Ok, we did that, it worked a couple times, then we started noticing that her breathing got faster, and she would get flush. Really weird.  Wasn't getting better, so took her back again, and Dr couldn't believe the reaction to albuterol, so he gave her an "updraft" tx and watched, and lo and behold, she got flush all over, and her breathing became fast and hard.  He was puzzled.  Then....check this out.....I saw on tv, Mystery Illnesses...something like that on Dish, anyway, this lady, who took antibiotic, and albuterol, ect......same thing, come to find out she was allergic to the antibiotics!!!!!!!!  It almost killed her.  It was such a slow, unnoticeable, and undetectable reaction, they couldn't figure it out.  So, now we don't use the "c" family drugs.  We use the penicillin family, which we now know she isn't allergic to.  I just wonder if the other, mixed with albuterol is what caused my grandbaby's reaction - which appears to be an allergic reaction.  Hope this helps you even a tad.
Blessings

[Linda'smom]

Is there not one person out there that can relate to this?  Was hoping for some helpful feedback...