Does this sound like asthma in a young child? Your experiences? (also posted in health)?

You may want to consider looking into the possibility of recurring bronchitis. It can closely resemble asthma and, with the wheezing and rattling in his chest, that's what it sounds like. Cold air and wind can make the problems worse. I would recommend covering the child's nose and mouth with a scarf to keep him from breathing in the cold air if he is going outside.

its difficult one i have asthma and so does my daughter who is 3 in a couple of weeks my daughter is on a light brown inhaler a blue inhaler and singular at night and this has worked fi my daughter who is prone to chest infections and bronchitis does your son wheeze and have a night time cough if so this could well be asthma has your doctor try ed your son with an inhaler and spacer device as my daughter has her inhalers through this device and it gets the medicine were its needed my daughter has had chest xrays and a broncopsy its looks right into the lungs but had to be done my daughter was knocked out fi this she is also under a specialist in respiratory medicine i don't believe nebulizers work they hardly use them in emergency room in scotland i have been told theres very little Evidence that they work iv Always been told to give my daughter 10 puffs of the blue inhaler threw a spacer device if this doesn't work iv been advised to phone 999 for a ambulance i would ask your gp to refer your son to a respitory specialist they are the people with the answers take it fi someone who has asthma

My son has had chronic breathing & asthma issues since he was 7 mos old. He had chronic pneumonia his first full winter season and every time he gets a cold now (he is 2 mos shy of 3 yrs old) it goes right into his lungs, and we end up on breathing treatments around the clock. He takes pulmicort via nebulizer every day now, and we will be switching him to an inhaler once the pulmicort rx runs out. We tried Xopenex and found that it did NOT work for my son. Albuterol works much better for him. You might see if your pediatrician will try Albuterol instead of Xopenex. We also propped his crib and toddler bed up at the head a little bit because he breathes better upright. (We spent many nights holding him upright in rocking chair so he could breathe!!) We also found that Vicks BABY rub (NOT the adult one) rubbed a little bit on his chest at night helped him to breathe a little better.

My kids all have horrible coughs during winter/cold weather. It gets much worse at night. My eldest two take ventolin and flixotide, which manages their asthma well. My son is too young to be diagnosed with asthms (they won't do it before the age of two), but looks to be heading that way too. For us, it is cold weather, exercise and smoke from house fires in the air outside that trigger their asthma, not our pets, although our cats and dog have been banished to the outdoors in case.