It's Asthma Season in the Ohio Valley

I have 2 out of the 4 asthmatics in out house right now on what we refer to as "doubled up" breathing treatments.

Poor Katelyn came home unable to breathe and coughing from soccer practice last night. It was the usual course of Xopenex and double Pulmicort for her. We will monitor her peak flow numbers to make sure she is where she needs to be during these high pollen count times. (Hmmm...maybe I should add a pollen count gadget to the sidebar)

Gareth has been on and off on double Pulimicort treatments and Xopenex every 4 to 6 hours via nebulizer for a few days now. A trick to keeping a 3 year old down for treatments, read to them or let them watch a video. Reading is always the better option, but not always the most time efficient with 3 kids.

Pulmicort has an Asthma Kids Care Program-I've used it a few times. My kids like some of the "free advertising" products (stickers.. charts). They used to have a program where you could sign up and get a free nebulizer (not the compressor).

Pulmicort Respules- http://www.pulmicortrespules.com/
Pulmicort Flexhaler - http://www.pulmicortflexhaler.com/
Xopenex- http://www.xopenex.com/