Asthma when does it start?

And what are the signs and symptoms?

There are times when DD sounds weasey and rattly, I'm sure its mostly excitement.
Accept that her Dad has asthma and he developed from when he was 12 months old.

Has anyone's children developed asthma and how did it start?

The reason they don't diagnose or confirm asthma so young & usually call it bronchiolitis, is because the smooth muscle that the inhalers work on are not developed properly or there isn't enough of it so therefore the inhalers don't work properly.

Go to the Dr, they will listen to her chest & listen if she has a wheeze down in her lungs. If not it could be caused by heaps of different things. Cooper was the wheezyist sounding baby, going blue whole pile of stuff like that, turned out to be reflux/allergies to wheat/dairy. It could have been very easy to label him asthmatic cause I am.

Good luck, Dr's will be able to help.

G has asthma and has been a wheezy baby all along. She got bronchiolitis heaps (20 plus times) in her first year and was hospitalised 4 times but they would not diagnose her till she was 2. However, she was ventolin responsive from about 8 months onwards so she was prescribed a preventor and a reliever inhalor from about a year old but they just said she had reactive airways and wouldn't say asthma till she turned 2. She was diagnosed 3 days after her 2nd birthday.

We just saw the paed about G's asthma and she said that there are 3 types of asthma - one that kids grow out by age 5 of as their lungs develop, one that kids generally grow out of in their teens, and one that continues into adulthood. Unfortunately I am one of those adults who didn't grow out of asthma, and I also have hayfever. G has mild eczema and hayfever as well so things aren't looking that great for her.

One thing I did notice with G very early on is that she wheezes heaps when she has been running around or is doing something very active (bouncing on the tramp for example). She is particularly bad when she is sick and when it is cold outside (ie all winter).

It was noticeable this morning when it was colder, and when she gets excited. I'll talk to the gp tomorrow. FX its nothing to be concerned with.

Dh sort of grew out of his in his teens, he still has an inhaler and gets the odd attack each year, he gets hay fever every spring.

My DS gets wheezy every time he gets a cough or cold and the Dr said they wont diagnose asthma until they are older as most babies and toddlers with grow out of the wheeziness. we have ventolin for him, for whenever he gets wheezy.

DS's comes from having Bronchiolitis when he was 17 months, he ended up in hospital with it.

Dont worry Im sure its not asthma and possibly just to do with the cold and a bit of phlegm.