the doctor and what we are doing

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Hello Group,

We lived in a high humidity home which developed mold. My youngest

son who is now five developed asthma last year before I was able to

realize mold was our problem.

This September I flew him to Dr. in Texas and some expensive

tests confirmed antibodies to eleven molds at elevated levels, some

really high. Micotoxin test showed three.

My son has been on Sporanox for seven or more weeks, this last

Thursday he had a blood test to check the liver because Sporanox is

hard on it(?) We are told we may have to be on this for two years.

October 2003 was his first asthma attack, after many months of

slowly sliding downhill in health. I was not sure mold was our

problem until I pulled in the fresh outside air and changed his life

when he came home from the hospital. Stuffy nose gone, nightly

2:00am coughs we gone overnight, and the breathing problems/wheezing

was no where to be found. In fact, we had hardly any problems all

last winter, he had one day with the flu which spread though our

school like wildfire and brought home by his siblings, and had croup

December 24, but not bad enough to go to the hospital as unusally

happened in the past, but these were not a problem. Never saw a

doctor. He even played on big round hay bales with a mask on many

times. We thought he was cured, though we were walking on eggs all

the time, always listening to him when he slept, waking up in the

middle of the night to check. That was until this spring when he

was hospitalized in March for croup and then a cough developed which

would not go away. Lots of kids had the cough, but we ended up

going on advair and singulair, the two products we were suppose to

be on all winter but never used. He did have three exposures to

mold at this time which were short exposures, but wheezing resulted.

I went to Dr to get him off these drugs.

Early on this summer we cut back from two puffs of advair a day to

one and have been doing Ok. Last week we went to a puff every other

day. This week we are skipping two days between puffs. His brother

cought a cold and gave it to my younest son, but we do not notice

breathing problems/or wheezing, just a slight cold. We have our

house so dry(26-30%) that we are running humidifiers near their beds

when they sleep.

Can anyone tell me about Sporanox and how it was for them.

As a parent, there is nothing worse than your child hurting. We are

lucky as the asthma is not that bad as the stories I read on all the

places I see on the internet.

There are so many people with children sick with breathing

problems. I am sure mold is the problem is many of those cases, but

people will not believe it. The problem is these people are being

told from everyone that everything else is causing the problems and

me telling about mold is just another in a long line of causes that

might be. I always end with telling them to have a mold inspection

done just to rule it out. I am sure no one has taken the advice.

People look to their doctors as people who should know. They

don't. They only go by their guidelines. Breathing problems =

steriods. Forget what is causing it.

Thanks,

Fletch