10 Month Old Wheezes

My son started wheezing after getting common colds at this age too. You should bring him in immediately. The wheeze needs to be treated or it gets worse and can become dangerous. We have ended up at the emergency room... Not fun. Bring him in. Good luck and I wish the little guys well.

Being that I have been an asthmatic since I was 2 months old I would highly recommend you take him now! It is much better to be safe then sorry. Even if it is a cough it could be a bronchial infection which can become pnemonia....worse case you took him in and he just had some congestion and is just fine.

I would call the doctor in the morning. No point in worrying about it. They will just want to make sure he is getting enough oxygen and that he is not struggeling too much. It is always better to be safe than sorry, call your doctor and explain all the symptoms your baby is having. :)

I would definately take him to the doctor if he is wheezing. My son does the same thing everytime he has a cold. Turns out, it has been nothing more than drainage. We even had chest x-rays done, because I didn't believe the doctor when he told me he was fine. Turns out he was, but the doctor said that when they have a runny nose like that it can get caught in their chest and sound worse than it is. Hope it's the same for you.

I wouldn't worry too much about athsma. It is a bit early for that diagnosis and if it was a true athsmatic wheeze, he would be wheezing during the exhale not the inhale. He is probably still a bit congested. I would definitely see the doctor if he isn't better in a few days but wouldn't worry about the athsma. My husband and I both have the condition, as well as our 20 month old son. He starting having serious breathing problems at one year but they didn't diagnose him until about 15 months, which is really early. Best of luck!

take him to the dr.it could be more serious than you realize.

I would definitely take him in. When my oldest was close to that age, I took him in for what I thought was an earache. When we got there, the dr said that he was wheezing (I still have trouble hearing it), and when they checked his oxygen levels, it was 85 (it should be around 98-99). He ended up being taken to Children's and was admitted that night. After asking a lot of questions and going through some of the same things with our second, I now believe he had bronchiolitis, which is essentially wheezing with colds. They both had trouble breathing whenever they got a cold and had to be nebulized with asthma medication. But around their second birthdays, they both outgrew it. Your son may not have the same thing at all, but I would definitely take him in, since
the symptoms are similar and I had no idea what we were in for when we went in the first time. Good luck, and I hope he's feeling better soon!

Well there has been a nasty cold going around and its real nasty. You think its just a common cold but its worse then that but with all the same symptoms. My family just recovered from it also but not without the ear infections that came with it or the upper respiratory infections that came with it. However if your little one is wheazing I would take him in to the Dr. It could be respiratory effects from this cold. Its the goose honking type cough you have to worry about too,so I would take him in to be seen if I were you. Mom of 4 gramma to 3

My older son has asthma, diagnosed at age 4. When he was a baby, he didn't wheeze much that I recall. He did have croup several times, and that was later mentioned as having a connection to the later asthma.

Even now he doesn't wheeze -- his asthma shows up in a persistent cough. When he was four he coughed a lot, and his coughs wouldn't go away. That was how we knew.

I bet your baby is just really congested still. Go ahead and call the doctor to relieve your worries. Hope this helps!

my little guy weezes too. One cold it was so bad I took him into after hour care and his oxygen stats showed he had loss of oxygen to his blood. They gave him a nebulizer treatment and that helped alot but he still weezes alot. Dr says hes not labeling it asthma but called it asmatic bronchitus and gave him samples of singular which is an asthma med. I'm confused too cuz were all better but I still tell him to cough when I hear it rattling and that helps too...

Asthma is only diagnosed after several episodes of wheezing. It takes ahile for a doctor to say a child has asthma. So I wouldn't assume that's the situation. But if you child is wheezing that means they are working harder to breath then they should. You should call your nurse and talk to them, I bet they will want to see him today. Kids can only work so hard to breath for so long. And if you don't get it treated it could potentially get worse, which could put him in a hospital. Another sign of wheezing is coughing, esspecially when lying down or sleeping. That was our DS. He'd alway cough during his sleep so we put him on singular so that he could sleep. We had 2 years of occaisional wheezing associated w/ cold and bronchial flaring (seen on X-Rays of the lungs). we were treating with albuterol as needed for wheezing/coughing and singular for coughing. Then recently he was admitted to the hospital for wheezing that they couldn't sufficiently control in the clinic.

M., Bronchitus (sp?) can cause a wheezing like that. In a little one like that, I'd call your ped and ask them if he should be seen, just to be safe. It's probably nothing to worry about - even if it is bronchitus. Its really common.
Good luck!

Never had this problem with my own children, but two friends had children with wheezing after a respitory illness, and in both cases the children had a collapsed lung.

One child developed pneumonia, complicated by a serious respitory illness called RSV. The other child had a bad cold virus. Both children eventually recovered (the RSV patient was hospitalized for a week, and took about two months to recover and the child with the bad cold virus recovered in about two weeks at home). Don't know if this helps or creates more questions, but this is what I've seen.

Take your baby to the doctor right away.If it has been a week, then he is in need of some medicine don't wit for it to get worse.

I had the same problem at that age with my second child. He ended up having it many times. I would take your son in. He will need a neb. My son would get better and than any cold would cause him to wheeze. My doctor ended up treating him aggresively with a neb for several weeks. It cleared up the problem and still at 3 is fine.

My friend was just telling me about her son who had a cold and he started wheezing. They took him in and took an XRay and he has pneumonia...might as well have him checked out to be on the safe side.

Hi M.

I experienced the same thing when my son was at that age.

They tested for RSV and fortunatly he didn't have that. As they are too young at this age to be diagnosed with Asthma, our pediatrician said it sounded like RAD (Reactive Airway Disease).

He was treated with Albuterol and Prolicort (use of a nebulaizer) for about 2 months, along with Prednosolone

After the 2 months, the wheezing, excessive coughing and all of the other effects disappeared.

Once in a while during and after a cold, we have to bring out the nebulizer to control the RAD. We normally would do it twice a day until it went away, which was about 2 days.

Let us know what you find out.

We just went through that exact thing in our family, though I am still recovering. My son's doctor told me if his wheezing increased, he would order a nebulizer for him. We do have a slight history of asthma in our family, but like you, we had been sick woth a virus/congestion so I am not worried about that right now. Likely your doctor would evaluate your child in a regular office visit and determine whether he needs a nebulizer or not, and whether to be wary of asthma symptoms. Hope you all are feeling better soon. :)

It is probably not asthma. My son had RSV as an infant (8 weeks old). Until last winter (he is now almost 4) anytime he would get a cold it would settle in this chest and he would have a slight wheeze. We would have to use a nubulizer on him 2x a day to help clear it up. It was pretty easy and he was alot more comfortable and slept better!

I am not sure waiting it out is going to help much - I would call your Dr and she what he says over the phone but you must just want to bring him in to make him more comfortable

Good Luck!

If I were you I would take him in as soon as possible just because you don't want things to get worse. Being congested like that may lead to seconday problems such as ear infections, pneumonia, etc. I just had this problem last week with our little one and he ended up with a mild ear infection because I didn't take him in right away so I would take him in to get him checked out soon. Good luck!