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Question: Why would a doctor say that they have to wait until the child turns two to see if they have asthma!?
My son has had night time coughing since he was born and when I talked to his doctor about it she said that they cant test him until he turns two!. He started coughing in the day to the point that he was getting sick!. I took him in and they said that he had asthma but the kind only when he gets sick!. I took him back for his two year check up a month in a half later and told them that he still was coughing up to three times a day!. So she put him on flovent!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Hi Vicky!.This is a question that I have been asked frequently by parents in the hospital!. It does have to do with airway development!.The mechanics of a baby's lungs complicate the diagnosis of asthma!. Infants' airways are small!. When a baby gets a respiratory tract infection, these already small passages get swollen and filled with mucus much more easily than an older child's or an adult's!. This can lead to coughing, wheezing, and other symptoms of asthma (even if it is not asthma, but just a viral infection)!.It can be difficult to diagnose in children under the age of 5, especially in infants, because other conditions have similar symptoms!.Doctors want to avoid an incorrect diagnosis, which might unnecessarily disrupt the lives of the entire family or label a child with a chronic condition he or she may not have!. Fewer than one third of all infants who wheeze on a recurring basis during their first 3 years continue to wheeze into later childhood!. In other words, most kids who wheeze as infants outgrow it and don't have asthma when they get older!.However, doctors know that uncontrolled and persistent asthma can damage the lungs over time!. The early use of anti-inflammatory medications may help prevent this from happening!.For these reasons, doctors might choose to treat the symptoms as if the child has asthma, even if the diagnosis is uncertain!. They may prescribe asthma medications, but probably won't officially diagnose a child with asthma unless he or she continues to have symptoms!.
Has your doctor looked into GERD or allergy testing!?These too may cause a chronic cough!.
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Has your doctor looked into GERD or allergy testing!?These too may cause a chronic cough!.
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I don't know the answer to this either - it's not like they're any different the day before they turn two than the next day!. Both my daughters were so severe in their symptoms they got inhalers and spacers at 1 year old, even though the doctor couldn't actually write a diagnosis of asthma until age 2!.
At least you can still get the medication without the diagnosis!Www@Answer-Health@Com
At least you can still get the medication without the diagnosis!Www@Answer-Health@Com
It takes a while for a child's lungs to fully develop, and enough for them to be able to do the test safely!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Actually, asthma can't be properly diagnosed until the age of about 6!.
Being a primarily allergic disease the immune system needs to mature and settle before a definative diagnosis can be made!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Being a primarily allergic disease the immune system needs to mature and settle before a definative diagnosis can be made!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
maybe they have to wait for the lungs to be at a certain development before they can use medication!.!.!.!.!.!.just a guess!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com