Asthma

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Greg and I noticed that Kailey was coughing in spells every night, I thought maybe she had some drainage and just watched her for a few days. When she didn't get better I called our pediatrician and brought her in. Dr. McAtee thinks that Kailey has asthma. This doesn't really surprise me because I have asthma, my Mom has asthma, and one of my brother's has asthma- so the family history is there. She wants Kailey to try this inhaler for two weeks and then come back in. The next step is to see a specialist and see what the "triggers" are for her asthma. Some possible triggers could be: dust, mold, pollen, grass, specific foods, etc, etc, etc... Our dogs live outside so we could rule that out and neither of us smoke so that is out too. Personally, I am not 100% convinced it is asthma, but if the inhaler works, I will use it! Once we see someone who looks at childhood asthma every single day I will feel better about our diagnosis. I remember what a pain it was when I was little with asthma- carrying around a bag of inhalers, having to stay inside on certain ozone days, and constantly worrying about dust and mold- I am REALLY praying that just maybe this will be a quick bout of asthma and not a lifelong issue. Please pray too!

So, for now we are giving Kailey her inhaler twice a day, she likes the mask and is so good at breathing the medicine in. She even gives some to her babies, she is just so sweet. We are trying to monitor what she is eating and doing during the day to see what is possibly triggering the asthma/coughing episodes. Once we know more we will post an update.