Asthma Parent

I've just stumbled across Medicines for Children for parents/carers to find information about medications prescribed to their child. I was looking up Prednisolone and found this leaflet to be both accurate and clear. Medicines for Children's vision is 'that any parent, wherever they are, have information on their child’s medicines that they need and can trust'. The leaflets are written by healthcare professionals and checked by parents and carers.  A great idea and very worthwhile.

A somewhat rocky few weeks with stupid unseasonal weather have seen both our two go down with awful colds and we've spent a great deal of time stuck indoors. A was back on her prednisolone at the weekend due to worsening symptoms after her second cold in two weeks and Baby L has been down for weeks drowning in snot and struggling with a crackly, wheezy chest (which of course is always clear when a doctor gets to listen to it). To be honest I think that I am paranoid that he'll develop asthma and as such I think that the fear of missing symptoms in him and going through anything like what we've been through with A drives a mild hysteria in me which I know that I must fight. But then the tiredness of being up at night so much with him for three weeks solid doesn't really lend itself to rational thought! A's behaviour while taking the steroids this time round was quite something and a really tangible reminder of the wonder (asthma symptoms under control within 24...