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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  It is interesting to see this thread back up.

My DD is now 25 months old and was diagnosed with Reactive Airway Disease or intermittent asthma.  She does not have any asthma symptoms, but an X-ray showed her airway was slightly narrowed on one side which leads to croup when her throat is aggravated---by reflux or sinus drainage.

Basically, when she gets a runny nose 24 hours later she will develop the croupy cough.  We let her try to go unmedicated for croup once, at 14 months, and it lasted a full week without getting better.  Since then, when we hear that croupy cough (typically in the morning after a night's sleep), we give her one dose of prednisolone and that nips it in the bud.  We also give her an inhaler/spacer with flovent, nasacort spray for adenoids, and ranitidine at night to protect the airway from reflux (she was a bigtime spitter as a baby).

I am getting a bit frustrated that for all the preventative care she still needs the prednisolone.  We have another appt. with the pulmonologist.  After allergy testing was negative, we are still keeping that on the radar because she had a one-time allergic reaction that needed an epi pen in the ER after a slow reaction (itchy eyes, swelling of cheeks, drooling) over the course of 3 hours.  I now carry an epi pen just in case, although we have no idea what could have caused that and if it has anything to do with her RAD.

I wish that someone could just tell me what is going on and how to keep her healthy.  I know many kids have much more serious problems, ours is more sporadic with our DD.  It is just frustrating as a parent to not really know what is going on with your kid completely or how to keep her healthy.[/quote]

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