We are starting her on a daily regimen of Flovent. It is an inhaled, daily steroid to help protect and heal her lungs so that viruses don't just head straight for them. It should help her get over them faster too. There aren't many side effects or dangers, as it doesn't enter the bloodstream. The doc felt it would be much more damaging to let her keep getting sick like this, possibly causing more inflammation and even scarring. She gave us the option of holding off until school starts and the viruses really pick up, but since that is only a few weeks away and she hasn't been well a solid week since before March, we opted to start now. Praying it helps! She also is ordering some pretty intense immune screening. The only catch is she has to wait two more weeks so that the steroids won't throw the tests and she is supposed to be "well". We will wait the two weeks and see, but we may have to settle for "having a little virus". We will see. We go back in three weeks for her 15 month well check. Let's hope we can stay out of there until then!
Friday, July 10, 2009
All Clear
Let's see. We did breathing treatments Friday, Saturday and Sunday, every three hours, except for at night. We decided I she needed the sleep. She seemed to be getting better and was off the steroid by Saturday. Although she sounded a little rough when we skipped an occasional dose and first thing in the morning, we could tell she was finally improving. We went in and saw Dr. F (on-call) on Monday for a follow up. I thought Kate sounded great. Her O2 sats were at 100%. The doctor came in and still heard some rattling and wheezing. She said to continue with the breathing treatments every 3 hours during the day, skipping the night, as long as she got at least 4 a day. Wednesday she started running a low grade fever, 99-100.6 range. I took her in today to see our pedi that is back in town and make sure we weren't brewing a bug for the weekend. Her lungs were.......CLEAR!!!! She wasn't fully exhaling, but the doc was comfortable moving her treatments to an "as needed" basis to see what will happen. YAY!!! She also took her last dose of Supprax today. The doc said the fever is just her "typical" virus.
We are starting her on a daily regimen of Flovent. It is an inhaled, daily steroid to help protect and heal her lungs so that viruses don't just head straight for them. It should help her get over them faster too. There aren't many side effects or dangers, as it doesn't enter the bloodstream. The doc felt it would be much more damaging to let her keep getting sick like this, possibly causing more inflammation and even scarring. She gave us the option of holding off until school starts and the viruses really pick up, but since that is only a few weeks away and she hasn't been well a solid week since before March, we opted to start now. Praying it helps! She also is ordering some pretty intense immune screening. The only catch is she has to wait two more weeks so that the steroids won't throw the tests and she is supposed to be "well". We will wait the two weeks and see, but we may have to settle for "having a little virus". We will see. We go back in three weeks for her 15 month well check. Let's hope we can stay out of there until then!
We are starting her on a daily regimen of Flovent. It is an inhaled, daily steroid to help protect and heal her lungs so that viruses don't just head straight for them. It should help her get over them faster too. There aren't many side effects or dangers, as it doesn't enter the bloodstream. The doc felt it would be much more damaging to let her keep getting sick like this, possibly causing more inflammation and even scarring. She gave us the option of holding off until school starts and the viruses really pick up, but since that is only a few weeks away and she hasn't been well a solid week since before March, we opted to start now. Praying it helps! She also is ordering some pretty intense immune screening. The only catch is she has to wait two more weeks so that the steroids won't throw the tests and she is supposed to be "well". We will wait the two weeks and see, but we may have to settle for "having a little virus". We will see. We go back in three weeks for her 15 month well check. Let's hope we can stay out of there until then!
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Yay! I'm glad she's better, for everyone's sake.
I'm so glad its been a better week. It sounds like your doctor has a plan to get Miss Kate back on track! I've been thinking about you guys and praying for Kate :)
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