An Introduction

Being a parent to a very young child with acute asthma is tough. There's no two ways about it. Although the Doctors are reticent to give toddlers the diagnosis of asthma (with good reason; should 'A' wish to do certain jobs in later life then an early label of (potentially) short lived asthma will stay on her medical records for life. 'Post Viral Wheeze' at this age, we're told should not prevent her). But let's be clear, the disease we're fighting against is asthma and the drugs that we're giving our little girl are strong, scary and designed to prevent and (when necessary) improve acute respiratory distress.

With this blog I want to share our experiences with anyone who might find themselves in the same situation, provide an insight to anyone who may be interested and to keep a diary for ourselves of A's attacks, symptoms, medications and anything else likely to help us in our ongoing efforts to prevent or lessen the next potential attack. Between attacks, asthma isn't a part of our lives. Other than the daily preventative medications, we don't limit A's activities and we try to encourage others to do the same as life should continue as normally as possible. The side effect of this however, is that often with the hectic nature of our jobs, two very young children (and the inevitable sleep deprivation) we can't always remember all of the details of the last attack, what each doctor has said or exactly what did and didn't improve the situation last time. For this reason and for our own sanity we will use this blog to log each attack.