My son was diagnosed with asthma after having pneumonia twice in a six month period after his recheck from coming out of the hospital at age two. He has been on everything imaginable from Flovent, alvesco, to singular and nasal sprays, albulteral treatments,predinisone(oral) and now nebulizer treatments(duo neb and pulmacort). He has an asthma specialist which is great but I feel there is something he is missing. My son has been through multiple tests to check for allegeries and cystic fibrosis and all were negative. We just seen the doctor two weeks ago and he had a slight cold so we thought put him back on alvesco 160mg bid and no relieve. He went from year round to seasonal back to year round asthma. A mother knows when something isn't right and having croup consecutively from October thru December and now again, and all onsets with croup are exactly a month apart when it comes back. I worry about the long term effects of the steroids and other medications he has been on. Typically every three to four weeks my son comes done with another illness. He is normally sick from end of september throught the beginning of march. I myself was born premature(@ 24 weeks) only health issues is a heart defect yet my son was born premature (@ 5 and half weeks early and he seems to have more illness them I ever did as a child growing up).
Sorry for the length of post. Just so hard to see your only child be rather sick. Any suggestions or recommendations to what direction should I head towards next would be gladly accepted.