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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS got sick with something nearly every week, a cold, croup, something.

It was allergies and asthma and, with medication, he doesn't get sick more than once or twice a year now.[/quote]

Thanks--do you mean with the asthma meds (e.g. flovent, montelukast) or other meds?[/quote]

I’m the 22:00 poster - if your child is prescribed montelukast (generic for Singulair) just keep an eye out for odd behavioral side effects. My 5-yo turned into a different person within a week of being on it. She was despondent, saying she didn’t want to exist anymore, would cry nonstop over nothing at all. It was terrifying. I didn’t put two and two together until a few weeks into treatment and once she was off of it for
36 hours it was like I had my child back. Scary stuff and doesn’t happen to everyone but it’s worth looking out for if you do try that as a treatment. FWIW, going off that particular bronchodilator didn’t set her back in terms of the airway symptoms so it wasn’t worth trying another one. [/quote]

This is so true. I was prescribed Singulair as an adult. Opened up my airways and made me able to breathe easily, but gave me horrific and vivid dreams that were so terrifying and visceral I stooped the medication within a week. I would never want any child to have to experience that. [/quote]

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