Guest guest Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Tyler has been diagnosed as 25% asthma and 75% VCD. He definitely has allergic asthma but his severe, " brittle " asthma has actually been something called Vocal Cord Dysfunction. Anyone out there have any experience with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 Vocal Cord Dysfunction should be seen by a speach therapist. They can help greatly with that. When his vocal cords spasm, it lets no air in, he then panics and the asthma attack happens. Poor little guy. I just want to hug him. Please take him to a large university speach therapy program or find someone in your area who has a masters in speach therapy, or a BS in speach therapy with a masters in respiratory or physical therapy. Pat --------------------------------- for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Thanks. He has an app't with a specialist at UCLA next week. I'll let you know how it goes. > > Vocal Cord Dysfunction should be seen by a speach therapist. They can help greatly with that. When his vocal cords spasm, it lets no air in, he then panics and the asthma attack happens. Poor little guy. I just want to hug him. Please take him to a large university speach therapy program or find someone in your area who has a masters in speach therapy, or a BS in speach therapy with a masters in respiratory or physical therapy. > > Pat > > > --------------------------------- > for Good > Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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