There is an odd comfort from hearing others going through the same thing. My daughter’s asthma started from a sinus infection that did not go completely away until almost a year later (had an adenoidectomy). After numerous rounds on antibiotics for it, her dr wanted her to have a break on them since the SI was looking like it was cleared up. 2 weeks later (in the middle of summer) she developed a high fever just before midnight…the ER x-rays showed that she had pneumonia in her right lung. She seems to be better now after the adenoid surgery, but to know that she can seemingly, just randomly, develop pnuemonia keeps me in a constant state of anxiety. She has a cold now, so we’ve seen her dr., increased her maintenance meds, added an antibiotic nasal wash (to her usual ritual of saline rinses and nasonex). The good news is that when we saw the dr. last week her lung function was really good – this is an improvement over her ususally deminished lung function during colds. My daughter’s asthma is always worsened by any post nasal drip, whether from allergies (she takes claritin daily with the nasonex) or a cold or sinus infection or her GERD. I hope your grand daughter stays better and doesn’t have to go through any bouts of pneumonia again.

I can’t thank you enough Amy for creating this site! I’m a single asthma mom, so in addition to actually being all alone with my AG, this disease has made me feel even more isolated – it’s great to see I’m really not alone.

Just last night my cousin told me, “Boy, if it weren’t for no fever, I’d think I have the flu.” She has cough, congestion, body aches, chills, severe fatigue. Her husband had exactly the same thing.

Another friend ran a fever just for an afternoon – -about 100 degrees. It’s my suspicion these people have the flu, but since no one is testing, who knows?

My daughter did have 5-day bursts, and the break came b/c after the first burst, she improved slightly and seemed to be on the mend. When it became clear that she was flaring badly again, her ped. tried one more 5-day burst on the assumption that since she improved a little the first time, maybe she needed a little more help.

5-day bursts are definitely pretty standard for kids b/c drs. don’t want to overload their systems, but I don’t know how common it is to do 2 in a row with a short break in between. In my daughter’s case, she didn’t seem that bad off when she started the second burst. If her symptoms had been worse (like they were by the END of that second burst–pulse ox had dropped, fluid on the x-rays, etc.), I imagine they would have admitted her to begin with, if that makes sense. She was 4 years-old at the time, btw.

As far as the fever goes, I’ve never heard of H1N1 w/out it. Maybe someone else on here has?

Which brings me to another question, has anyone read much about flu WITHOUT fever? AB Ped commented this bug was similiar to H1N1 without the fever… then this erupts at school on Monday? I read 1/3 of confirmed cases in Mexico had no fever but nothing has been said about this in US cases?

I have always been a read everything person, but after how many years of asthma (since 4m old) /food allergy (since he was 18m) issues this might be the year just to not read too much. Thank you for clarifying EM, your interpretation makes sense, I just took it too literally at the time.

It is really nice to get the opinions/hear of experiences of others here that have similar histories. Many times friends and especially relatives that don’t have these issues don’t get the proactive parania that sometimes is standard operation procedure for some of us.