Question:
I have been using flonase for about 2 weeks now every night.
2 squirts in each nostril.
80% of my congestion has cleared up.
I am also using singular 1 time a day.
I am trying to figure out what is stoping my asthma? My asthma is
basically gone now.
However,I am looking for something that will get rid of the rest of
my congestion...
1. Is there anything that works the same way as singular, but only it
is stronger?
2. Should I consider adding in astlin again to clear up the allgeries?
3. Is it possible that all of my allgeries were caused by nasal
allgeries and that I dont even need the singular, and all i need is to
controal the nasal allgeriea? and my asthma will be controaled?
I have a allgeriest that I work with, but I try to do my own research ,
so I dont have to take more medication than I have to...
Answer:
as the mother of an asthmatic maybe I can offer some answers here...
there are two kinds of asthma 1) the kind you are born with and 2) acquired
asthma. My daughter has the second kind.. there were nights that I thought
for sure she would die before we could get her to emergency but by the time
we would get there her breathing would be almost normal. Slight congestion
was all and we would be sent home with cough syrup and the doctors thinking
we were over anxious parents. Then one summer night it didn't stop, it was
hot and muggy as all get out.. we walked in and this time she couldn't take
a deep breath at all... a nurse grabbed a doctor and said "that baby is
having an asthma attack". She didn't develop it until she was 11 months
old. Hers is stress and allergy induced, she is now almost 23 and rarely
has any problems. She is on a daily inhaler as a preventative med,
albuteral (not sure of the spelling) and she has singular to take if she
gets congested. At one time we discussed having a nebulizer at home but our
insurance at the time wouldn't pay for it and we couldn't afford it, luckily
our doctors office was a stones throw from home and they have 24 hour
emergency care there.
Anyway.. her allergies are spring time.. the first flowers blooming, the
first time the grass is cut, and dogs.. but we have always had a dog, it's
her dog.. and she informed the doctor she wasn't getting rid of it. He told
her to not let it sleep on her bed, yeah right.. now he believes that the
reason she doesn't have much trouble is because she built up immunity to the
allergens. She refused allergy shots and by the time they pinned down the
actual sources she was old enough to be a part of her treatment. That being
said, our doctor has asthma, he grew up on a farm, and like he said "my dad
didn't sell the farm and asthma didn't get me out of farm chores." He
taught my daughter how to know when an attack was coming on, he worked with
her and her soccer coach so she could play soccer without the coach worrying
about her keeling over on the field. She still has an attack if she gets
overly stressed but since she is in management she is learning to deal with
stress and knows when she needs to take a "time out" and just unwind and
totally relax so she doesn't have an attack.
You might try to find out which kind of asthma you have. From what we have
learned from the American Lung Association and attending asthma "clinics" at
the hospital, if you have the type that you are born with it, you rarely out
grow it but it can be controlled and there are new medications coming out
all the time. If you have the acquired type you will more than likely out
grow it until you are elderly, you may be more apt to have more sever
problems when you are elderly.
