Well this week has definitely been an interesting one for
me. First I find out that my daughter will most likely end up having reactive
airway disease for the rest of her life due to getting RSV last week. Her lungs
were so irritated that they will probably always be that way. She will probably
wheeze off and on unless we give her breathing treatments. We had to give her
breathing treatments three times a day for a week, and we stopped that on Wed.
She was doing really well, but tonight she started wheezing again. I hate that
she keeps getting wheezy, but at least I know what will help her. We gave her a
breathing treatment, and within minutes her wheezing had stopped. The only good
thing to this is that since we are starting this at such a young age, as she is
growing up she will know no different and think that breathing treatments is a
normal thing and not try to fight them. She does very well with her treatments
now. We use the spacer instead of the regular mask due to her fighting and
screaming with the mask. With the spacer, she likes to gum on it and suck on
it, and it makes the treatment process so much easier. I love how easy it is
for her. I hope the easiness stays that way for the future, if we have to keep
giving her breathing treatments. She is also starting to get her first tooth.
The very tip of her tooth has poked through, and now we are waiting for the
rest of it to pop through. She has been super fussy recently due to this, and loves
to have her gums rubbed. It seems to calm her down and help with the pain in
her mouth. Oragel seems to be helping also. We use an amber bracelet on her
ankle to help with pain also, as well as occasionally giving her Tylenol.
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