We were on a good roll through the beginning of winter with Lily's asthma, and I thought we might have it all under control (cold weather is an asthma trigger). Until this week. She had a little episode earlier this week, where in her words, she couldn't get her yawn out. Her rescue inhaler took care of it and we just moved on. Fast forward to Thursday night and she again had a flare up, but this time nothing was helping. And, of course, it always seems to happen at night or on a weekend.
We got her started on an oral steroid, but she still sounded bad in the morning, so we had an appointment first thing. Our pediatrician ordered a chest x-ray, and she got a breathing treatment while she was there. The breathing treatment helped quite a bit, so I requested a nebulizer at home (up until now, we have just used an inhaler with spacer). Here's Lily doing a breathing treatment at home:
The chest x-ray came back clear. Our doctor thinks that maybe she has something else (bronchitis or sinus infection, etc.) brewing in there in combination with her asthma, and wanted to double check and makes sure nothing else was going on in her lungs.
So, from here, we are just on the mend. I think we're on the upswing. She's playing and doing well, though I wouldn't let her go outside to do some stuff with Matt and Abby this morning because I didn't want her in the cold, dry air. It makes her asthma worse.
The girls are in full-on play mode today....
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