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Tuesdays are Your Turn – Allergy Testing
From my email: My daughter has had asthma for 3 years and this had been quite an learning experience. I am curious if other families have had their kid allergy tested and if they found that beneficial? The great chase for the trigger!!! – Jen I took my 11 year-old asthma kid in for a [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Baby and Toddler Suspicions
I write a lot about parents’ instincts and those gut feelings we all have when it comes to just plain old raising children and also the more complicated subtleties of kids’ medical treatment. Now be honest: Did you know or suspect your child had a health problem before the asthma diagnosis? I didn’t. One of [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – The Return of Childhood Asthma
This one’s meant to satisfy my own curiosity and also to a create a sort-of spontaneous record online. We’ve all known so many people who think or hope their kids will outgrow asthma (everyone who’s ever parented a lung-challenged child, basically), but we also know that even if bronchial symptoms go on hiatus for awhile [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – September Epidemic, Anyone?
I’d never heard of the September Epidemic of asthma hospitalizations and ER visits before this year, so I’m curious: How are you guys this month? Anyone fall victim to the September trend? As for us, my kid appeared, at first, to have missed out on the sickness and flares entirely this September, but no! She [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – The Family Get-Together
Today’s question, from my email, is just in time for these pre-holiday months: How do you handle family gatherings (i.e. holidays and birthday parties) when someone in your extended family is sick? My family totally does not understand asthma, or asthmatic triggers. It seems like often during family gatherings, one of my nieces have a [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Cough Drops and Syrup
When I found out my now 11 year-old daughter has asthma, she was two. And right after dropping that bomb of a diagnosis, her doctor gave me the advice that’s probably familiar to most of you: - No cough suppressants - No vapor rub - No cough drops Because if your kid practically hacks up [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Food Allergy Links
While AG and I both seem to have a sensitivity to ragweed, a new development for both of us and one that’s not triggering her asthma but forcing us both to see the world through weepy, red eyes lately, no one in my family has to eat around food allergies. That’s why I never write [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – How to Enjoy Fall
Today, the girls finished getting ready for school early, so the three of us hung out on the front porch together until it was time for them to head to the bus stop. While the Sidekick took pictures of the foothills with my phone and AG sang a little Lady GaGa, as she has been [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Medical Advocacy in Schools
Speaking of asthma and school, as I’ve been doing here ad nauseum lately, Samantha has a question about groups that might help asthma parents resolve school issues. Samantha tells me her friend, another asthma mom, has been struggling with her child’s school over the timing and frequency of medication and nebulizer treatments and could use [...] -
Tuesdays are Your Turn – Talking to a Child About Fatal Asthma
Last Friday Libby left a link to the following story in the comments: Ickey Woods, who used to play for the Cincinnati Bengals, lost his 16 year-old son, Javonte, to asthma over the weekend. After varsity football practice on Wednesday morning, Javonte suffered what sounds like a severe attack that night and ended up on [...]
