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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your DS may have reactive airways. Mine does and is prescribed an albuterol inhaler for night time coughing. He also gets an antihistamine (Zyrtec) to help dry up some of the congestion. It doesn't stop it completely but it does help immensely. Any family history of asthma, eczema, food allergies? I have asthma and allergies myself.

I also agree to reduce dairy consumption as it is very congesting. Also, when the nasal drainage is really bad I use the snot sucker on him along with a saline nasal spray.[/quote]

Interesting - I had no idea about the dairy and he has a lot of dairy.  For the inhaler - is it for a wheezing cough or a congested cough?  My one minute of google made it sound like wheezing (DS's is congested) but i'll discuss with doc[/quote]

Both. Our pediatrician basically has us do it as soon as he gets that bad night time cough (which if he only gets it at night is big indicator of reactive airways) because he has so many risk factors for asthma. I have cough-variant asthma myself and I only rarely get wheezing. Part of why it took a while to get diagnosed plus the fact that it was adult onset.[/quote]

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