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SOURCES: 2009 WebMD Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Howard Eigen, MD, Pediatric Pulmonologist, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.
© 1999-2011 Medstar Television
When Drue Young was a baby, he was sick a lot.
At that two month mark when the cough was horrendous, they tested him for whooping cough.
His cough was actually a symptom of asthma, but he wasn't diagnosed until two years later.
Many, many children come in with just coughing. Many children will come in with shortness of breath.
Doctor Eigen (EE ghen) says wheezing is a common symptom of asthma, but actual wheezing is a chest sound made on exhale, not the inhale.
Classical wheezing is a whistling sound and it comes because the airways are narrowed when the child breathes out. The airway's obstructed from here up, from the neck up, whereas in true wheezing, the obstruction is from the neck down, truly made in the chest.
Giving a good medical history also helps doctors connect the dots to make a diagnosis.
So if you, as a mother, were to say, 'You know, this has happened four or five times in this last winter, it seems like there's something underlying the process', that gives a different sense than if you come in and just say, 'Well, he's sick today.'
Now that Drue takes daily asthma medicine, his mom feels they're on top of the disease.
We couldn't be chasing the ball running down the hill all the time we had to be ready to catch it, and so that's what the preventative medicine is for.
Letting him focus on being well instead of wheezy. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg
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