Chronic cough and reflux - Jodi R

[Guest guest]

Hey Jodi!

Dr H is concerned about the same things with right now. He has been

suffering from a chronic cough for over 3 months now, and nothing we do

seems to be helping all that much.

I am currently doing nebs of Zopenex every 4 hours, as well as his normal

Pulmicort in the morning and evening, as instructed by his Pulmonologist. If

things go like they have been, we will be able to wean him down to 4

treatments a day, and then only at morning and night with his Pulmicort, and

then we'll be able to stop for a couple of days. Unfortunately, that is all

we get!! A couple of days!!! And then he ends up sounding wet again, and

then the wheezing starts, and we're back to the beginning.

We have tried changing his reflux meds from 7.5mg of Prevacid twice a day,

to 15mg of Prevacid in the morning and 3.9cc of Zantac at night. Since his

wheezing occurs mostly in the mornings, we have recently switched the

Prevacid to the night, and the Zantac to the morning. But it just doesn't

seem to be working.

Any other ideas anyone???

Talk to you soon!

Pat (g-ma to , RSS, 30 months, 21.4#, 30.6 " , G-Tube)