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Suggest Treatment For Mild Asthma With Severe Cold And Cough In A Child

Posted on Mon, 14 Nov 2016

Question: Hi, my daughter is 3.10 yrs old. Has been diagonised wit mild asthma. Giving her ventorlin inhaler and allegra syrup when has cold and cough. But last one month back she had severe cold and cough. Was adviced Kidpred for 3 days , ventorlin inhaler of 4 puffs for every 4th hour and budecort inhaler for 3 months as a preventive measure. Kid was fine for a month , but now seeing same symptoms of severe cough. Can we repeat same medication of Kidpred and ventorlin inhaler? Is it safe to repeat Kidpred again

Please also suggest some home remedy to reduce her frequency of getting see attacks

Answered by Dr. Arun (39 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Continue budecort

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for writing to us.
As your child has been diagnosed with mild asthma, you need to continue budecort .
This is the medicine which will help in prevention.
Giving kidpred which is a oral steroid is harmful if repeated unless ordered by doctor each time.
Another option is to get allergy testing done.
This will identify which trigger factors cause it so that you can avoid that.
Enquire with your doctor about it.
Wishing your daughter good health.
Regards
Dr Arun

Brief Answer:
No way

Detailed Answer:
Giving honey will no way help her.
Its better to continue budecort till she recovers fully.
Allergy testing will help you in avoiding triggers and thereby reduce attacks.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Arun (8 minutes later)

Does giving honey a spoonfull every day would help her ? she has been reducing a lot of weight bcz of this cough ... Ne suggestions to help on this.Do we need to avoid any food items ? Because we are not giving her banana , curd because of cold and cough issue

Answered by Dr. Arun (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Allergy test

Detailed Answer:
Each kid may have allergy to different foods.
Allergy testing only can identify which foods can be given.
Avoid sweets and chilled items as a general rule.

Regards.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar