Asthma Parent

I've come across a couple of great programmes lately which help children understand their asthma better and make them realise that they're not different or unusual for having to use their inhaler when needed. Get Well Soon 'Easy Wheezy' Get Well Soon is a lovely CBeebies show about all kinds of childhood illnesses and how their bodies are affected. The 'Easy Wheezy' episode isn't on on iPlayer at the moment, though the Easy Wheezy song is on YouTube . Dr Ranj Singh is a real-life paediatrician and his programmes really captivate 'A' and get her asking really good and useful questions about all manner of illnesses, including her asthma. Sesame Street 'A is for Asthma' The other one is the old favourite, Sesame Street. You've got to love Elmo and A is for Asthma is great. I love the angle the video clip takes, showing the child's friend what to do when he starts to get wheezy and as always the educational tone of ...

While A has gone into the spring seemingly able to fight the nightmare wheezing of winter, last week our little Baby L ended up in hospital with fast laboured breathing, low oxygen, a high temperature and the dreaded  'Post viral wheeze'. We are certainly not the first to find that our second child might be vulnerable to the same respiratory problems as our eldest, however we really do feel pretty gutted. On the positive side, if he does continue to wheeze, at least we know what we're doing. We don't have the same learning curve as the first time round and in a funny kind of way inhalers, A&E and everything related to viral induced asthma is fairly 'normal' to us as parents (albeit worrying), but still, for him as much as for us, gutted. For now we'll have to wait and see if his tendency to wheeze continues. The last two times that he's had a cold I've had him down the doctors as we thought we'd heard a wheeze at nightime, so I think it d...