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Have Cough With Wheezing. Taking Medicines. Are These Medicines Safe For Kids? Wheezing Because Of Common Cold?

Dear Doctor, my daughter is 38 months old and ever since she has been going to school, she has had cold/sneezing/stuffy nose which quickly morphs into cough with acute wheezing, at a frequency of once in 4 months . Its worrisome and I do not know if it is because of weather or rapid season changing. The wheezing thing is a bit new for the last 4-5 months and it makes her cough all the time. From the last month we are giving her singulair + allerid as anti-allergy presscribed by doctor
The first time around the doctor whom we consulted gave him asthalin(5ml) along with T-minic syrups for 5 days and it subsided. The second time around wheezing became more persistentan, he said there might be a case of infection and has prescribed Amoxicilin along with Asthalin and T-Mimic and also Duolin Nebulizer for 7-10 days.
My questions are:
1. Are these medicines, especially Asthalin Asthalin& budecot(nebulizer),montelequast sodium tablets amoxycylin, and Duolin too strong or are they safe and given for kids of such age and such problems usually?

2. How to prevent frequent recurrence of wheezing related coughs? Is wheezing happening because of the common cold? Is cold and phlegm acting as the trigger for wheezing by blocking airways?
Tue, 19 Nov 2013
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Hi
Thanks for asking query on HCM.
The medicines he prescribed are safe for children.
Probably you are suffering from Bronchial asthma . Usually it is triggered by viral infection like common cold
There will be hyperreactive air ways which will go into spasm and secretions of mucous obstructing the air ways.
To prevent you have to avoid triggers and attend to common cold or any viral infection immediately
Hope this answer will serve your purpose.
Please feel free to ask any more queries ,I shall be happy to answer.
Take care.
Dr.M.V.Subrahmanyam
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Have Cough With Wheezing. Taking Medicines. Are These Medicines Safe For Kids? Wheezing Because Of Common Cold?

Hi Thanks for asking query on HCM. The medicines he prescribed are safe for children. Probably you are suffering from Bronchial asthma . Usually it is triggered by viral infection like common cold There will be hyperreactive air ways which will go into spasm and secretions of mucous obstructing the air ways. To prevent you have to avoid triggers and attend to common cold or any viral infection immediately Hope this answer will serve your purpose. Please feel free to ask any more queries ,I shall be happy to answer. Take care. Dr.M.V.Subrahmanyam