Kicking Asthma's Butt !

Good news from the Asthma Doc today :)

My youngest has not had an Asthma attack since last August.

In September of last year we were finally able to get him into a pediatric pulmonologist after getting the results from his RAST allergy testing which showed he was at the highest end of the chart for a Cat allergy.

We said buh bye to the Cat (we found her a great home) and the pulmonologist started him on Flovent .. 2 puffs twice a day.
Within days of starting the Flovent he was breathing MUCH easier.
I was no longer hearing at least 3 times a day "Mom I need a puffer".
His rescue inhaler became obsolete, in the past 6 months he has had 2 puffs total from his albuterol rescue inhaler and not one visit to the ER or family Doc because of Asthma. He has even had 2 colds this winter that have not led to Asthma kicking up.

THAT is amazing to me !

He has also been on Singulair for over 2 years now to help control the triggers that may have been setting off the Asthma.

The Doc today was so pleased with the control of his Asthma that when he sees him again in 6 months if he has not had any symptoms he will stop the Singulair.
If that goes well the visit after that he will start taking him off the Flovent too.

He said he needs to see at least a year of controlled Asthma before he removes a daily Asthma controller med.

If he comes off them sucessfully then all we will need to do then is to keep an Albuterol rescue inhaler on hand just in case he should flare up for some reason. (if there is a cat in someones home that might flare him up again etc...)

Otherwise he will just need to be aware that even as an adult it could come back from time to time and to be prepared if it does.

YEA for us !!!