140 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 17 Jun \ on: Parent Corner: Medical mostly_harmless
We have been very lucky with our daughter. She rarely gets ill and when she does she seems to bounce back quickly with just a few doses of childrens tylenol or advil.
My son on the other hand is asthmatic so when he was younger getting a chest cold was also a big concern for us He would get really bad and need prescribed coffee syrup and to use a nebulizer. My wife and I had many disagreements as she was of the mind he needed to be babied due to his asthma and I was of the mind he should do some more aerobic exercise to increase his lung strength and capacity. We eventually met in the middle and he joined martial arts.
Thanks for sharing. You have me Googling for the connection between caffeine and asthma. I didn’t know this! In my country, if kids have severe asthma, they need to take two puffs from their inhaler every morning - that’s the only medical remedy I know.
Did the marital arts lessons help?
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Yes, I believe so. He still gets a bad chest cold when he gets sick but his normal baseline lung capacity and need for his puffer is better. He is also growing up too. Sometimes these types of things get better as we grow up. Although I never had asthma when I was a kid I had a proclivity for bad respiratory illness. I had pneumonia and bronchitis a couple times but by my teen years I had outgrown it.
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That’s good to hear
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