Why is my child coughing so long!

Some of you who know me pretty well know that our family has been put the the ringer the last few months with sickness.  It all started with my daughter Hannah who had a wet cough or phlegmy cough that started way back in July.  I took her to the pediatrician multiple times who said it was allergies or a virus.  She continued to cough everyday all day.  I knew it wasn’t allergies.  My husband, mother and son all have allergies, and they have never coughed everyday for months because of allergies.  I finally decided if the pediatrician wasn’t going to do anything that I would take her to an allergist to prove that it wasn’t allergies.   The allergist tested her for allergies, turns out she is mildly allergic to trees but that wasn’t what was causing the coughing.  The allergist determined Hannah had a sinus infection, that went undiagnosed for 5 months.  After a round or antibiotic and steroids the cough finally ended.

Next was my baby Noah(8 months old) who started coughing, I was ready to cry after the ordeal I went thru with Hannah.   I took him to the pediatrician who said “it’s a virus”, then a week later back to the pediatrician, “it’s a virus”, then another week went by, “it’s a virus”, then back again to the pediatrician it’s getting worse lets give him Omnicef, still not better lets’ give him breathing treatments and another round of Omnicef because I was  insisting it’s not a virus.  Still no improvement, Noah continued to get sicker and sicker and I was crying every night because I knew something was seriously wrong!  And my pediatrician kept telling me it was viral!  So in desperation I made another appointment with an allergist/immunologist praying he would have some insight.  After listening to my story the allergist/immunologist said he suspected it to be  Mycoplasma, after doing the physical exam he said Noah had pneumonia.  He didn’t have a fever which was throwing off my pediatrician .  After 10 days of Bactium, the antibiotic to treat walking pneumonia, (Mycoplasma Pneumonia), I am happy to say Noah has stopped coughing.  I am so thankful to God for leading me to the right doctor.  

I know this is going around so I hope that my story will help other moms who can’t figure out why their children are coughing!

The 3 most common causes of a cough that lasts 6 weeks or longer are postnasal drip (most commonly from allergies), asthma and gastroesophageal reflux (stomach acid coming up to the vocal cords and making him cough)–in that order. Often the history or exam guides you. For instance if there is wheezing, asthma is the likely candidate. If the lungs are clear but there is alot of snot, postnasal drip. 

The typical approach is a trial of treatment for the most likely culprit. Albuterol sometimes is helpful if you give it and you notice that for the next couple hours he coughs or wheezes less. It doesn’t do anything to make him get better faster but it does make him breath easier and wheeze and cough less until his body heals. If he is not getting better within a week or two, you can try oral steroids for 5 days or a steroid inhaler which gives the same medicine right to the longs but takes longer to work (maybe a month). Somewhere along the way a chest xray is good to get to make sure there is not a pneumonia or something unusual that might show up on xray.

For both asthma and postnasal drip from allergies, avoiding common allergens can be helpful. The most common ones are cats/hamsters, dust mites (cover mattress and wash sheets in hot water weekly) and pollen or mold.


My friend who is a doctor sent me this information.  I thought it might be helpful to someone.

Steps To Helping Your Asthmatic Child

The first and most important is to determine the responsibility for asthma in your child. Parents of asthmatic children suffer a range of conflicting emotions. Strongest is the natural care for their child. They are the best treatment, or is it something that you do not think or do not know? Then there are doubts about the care or under protective gas. If this non-asthmatic siblings do you treat your children well? Maybe there is a debt that asthma can be taken over and it is your fault that your child has the condition.
Responsibility for the situation and eliminate the myth immediately. You do not want your child. There is no one to blame or judge of a type not exceeding a capacity inherited someone good enough for sports or singing. You can also recharge by informing you about the status. Do not waste time worrying if better treatments or medications for your child. More information. Using the medical profession, the library and the Internet. The best prescription is knowledge.
The next step is to be aware of the health of your child. A problem with a sick child is their inability to clearly explain how they feel. A child with asthma can not come to you in the middle of the night and called breathing or persistent coughing. Instead, they serve their condition deteriorate until their lungs long enough to have pressure on the stomach. At this point you can mention that they are sick.
Some children take a break when she breathes hard and never mention shortness of breath.
If you think your child has asthma, you probably looking for the classic symptoms: coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, changes in color of skin, nails, lips and a feeling of oppression in the chest. But be aware that there are other signs that a problem may include nausea, lethargy and loss of appetite low. Also note if your child is likely to send because they feel short of breath expire.
If possible, take a look at your child’s breathing during sleep. So you can see when they are relaxed breathing. Then you will be able to tell if their breathing works.
Next make sure your child is taking inhaled. Many medications for asthma inhalers, and is often understood as a child and the order of the breath required for these drugs difficult. How long will your child learn, blew her nose right? I know that a child, they held their breath as she held her lips tightly together that they breathed through the nose past. Many children feel that they do not hold your breath for the period and at the end of a dramatic sigh. If your child has asthma drugs through an inhaler, it is often better to take it with a brace or use Aero-board.
They must be prepared for an asthma attack. What to do. If your child has an asthma attack, remain calm and resist the urge to hug your child. All this is perfectly natural, it will reduce their chest and breathing harder for them.
If you are driving your child or an ER doctor, while having an asthma attack, you still have loops in their child. Do not expose your child. Imagine what would happen if, before an accident.
Effective with asthma, you need to understand the disease and your child to understand. You might be tempted to your doctor about all the decisions to leave, but it’s so much more you can not just medicate. You can check the status of changes in the family environment of nurturing your child to breathe if they improve performance and win. The more you know about asthma, the more effectively you can control.

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What Your Doctor Hasn"t Told You About Vaccinations Could Put Your Child at Risk for Autism, Asthma, Allergies, Diabetes or Cancer

Attention Parents:

What Your Doctor Hasn’t Told You About Vaccinations Could Put Your Child at Risk for Autism, Asthma, Allergies, Diabetes or Cancer.

Get the facts about vaccine risks
before you take any steps to vaccinate your child!

 

From the Desk of Tim O’Shea DC

Author and Instructor, Childhood Immunology

 

Dear Concerned Parent,

Do you have doubts whether vaccines can really protect your child from illness or disease? Do you worry that your child could become autistic, or develop asthma, allergies or even a fatal childhood disease, like Sudden Infant Death syndrome? These are not theories. Millions of American infants have these conditions today. Yet most other countries recommend less than half the vaccines we do.

What you’re about to read may come as a shock. It did for me when I first began to research vaccines and their effect on the body over a decade ago. Hundreds of hours of digging into the medical literature and checking the facts compelled me to speak out.

Much of what I discovered was in conflict with the way most of us are taught to care for our children. Let’s face it — most parents agree to have their newborn child vaccinated and believe it is the right thing to do. It’s what their parents did, and it’s what their doctors recommend. Once they start, the child goes on to receive numerous vaccinations year after year, up through their teens. All the while you, the parent, continue to think you’re doing the right thing.

Well. . .as it turns out, it’s often a mistake.

What you’ll see when you peek behind the curtain of the multi-billion dollar drug and vaccine cartels should scare the life out of you. . .because your child is being put in harm’s way more than you are being told.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
comments on the cover-up:
Vaccines, Mercury/ thimerosal & Autism
(4 min.)
To replay video, click the arrow or drag the left white ball to the left.

 

The Harsh Truth

Whether or not to vaccinate is a decision only you can make.

Sadly, it’s not likely you can turn to your pediatrician for help with this decision. You see, most doctors have staked their reputations and their financial well-being on the assumed safety and effectiveness of vaccines. They are bound by their profession to promote vaccinations.

But there’s another point of view, just as valid.

You’re about to discover that

 

vaccination is big business and big money for doctors, for the drug companies and for the government; vaccines are by no means proven safe, as you are being led to believe.

You deserve to know the facts. 

You deserve to have access to the information being put forth by doctors, scientists, and researchers all over the world who are speaking out today — the facts can no longer be denied.

Some top scientists in the field of human genetics go so far as to say it’s an outright assault on children and the future of the human race.

One Canadian physician, Dr. Guylaine Lanctot, puts it this way:

 

“The medical authorities keep lying. Vaccination has been an assault on the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illnesses. We are actually changing our genetic code through vaccination. . .100 years from now we will know that the biggest crime against humanity was vaccines.”

Renowned author and pediatrician, Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, is equally direct:

 

“The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization. Much of what you have been led to believe about immunization simply isn’t true. If I were to follow my deeper convictions, I would urge you to reject all inoculations for your child.”

He goes on to say: 

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease. If immunizations were responsible for the disappearance of these diseases in the U.S., one must ask why they disappeared simultaneously in Europe, where mass immunizations did not take place.”

 

 

No Proof of Safety

It might be shocking for you to hear this for the first time, but when you read about the history of vaccines and understand the financial forces that are in play, you may begin see the drug industry as an enormous machine, feeding off endless government funding for vaccines.

Remarkably, vaccination has never been clinically proven to be effective in preventing disease! I find this to be one of the most shocking discoveries of all, and so will you.

The double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, the gold standard of organized medicine, has never been used to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. No risk-to-benefit studies have ever been done. Vaccines remain scientifically unproven!

So while health authorities loudly credit vaccines for reducing disease and continually send the message that vaccines are safe, and necessary, the science isn’t there.

Many assumptions made by local clinics are directly contradicted by the most well regarded government statistics, published medical studies and the opinions of credible and highly respected research scientists all over the world.

In addition, reports coming out of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are finding the same contradictions.

Who Really Cares about Your Child?

Is it the vaccine manufacturers, who are behind virtually everything you have ever been told about the safety of vaccines? Dr. Samuel Katz, developer of the measles vaccine states, “Government doesn’t fund clinical studies of vaccines. Industry does.”

The current number of vaccinations your children will receive by the time they are 18 years old is an astounding 68!

And more vaccinations are on their way.

That is one gigantic cash industry, coming in at around $ 50 billion dollar annually.

Australian researcher Viera Scheibner, PhD, after investigating some 60,000 pages of medical literature on vaccination, summarized it:

 

“Immunizations, including those practiced on babies, not only did not prevent any infectious diseases; they caused more suffering and more deaths than has any other human activity in the entire history of medical intervention.”

Rep. Dan Burton & Dr. Andrew Wakefield
comment on the cover-up:
Vaccines, Mercury/ thimerosal & Autism
(4 min.)

 

But you can avoid this damage.

 

The One Resource They Don’t Want You to Read

I decided early on that I would take a stand for the truth regarding vaccines, no matter what the cost. I was determined to write a book that was referenced from the most legitimate, scientific sources, so that as a parent you could make the most informed decision.

Drug companies support medical journals with their advertising. FDA Advisory Committee members admit openly that they have financial ties to the vaccine manufacturers. It’s no secret.

What’s more, Congress passed a law exempting the liability of these companies. In other words, if your child is damaged or dies after vaccination, you can’t sue the vaccine company.

Now parents and people everywhere can have access to the facts. After 10 years of meticulous research, I created The Vaccine Seminar and the textbook for the seminar:

Announcing the new book. . .

Vaccination
Is Not Immunization
3rd Edition – 2013