what is the name of a breathing treatment for

[karla c]

patients that have bronchitis? It's like the oxygen that they put on patients in the hospitals but there's like some kind of smoke that the patients have to breath in. Well, my two year old daughter gets bronchitis like once a year and she has started with the same symptoms and I was wondering if it was ok if I put the breathing treatment on her. Would it hurt her if what she has is not bronchitis? I have already called her pediatrician and they don't have any available appointments until february. I really don't know what the treatment contains but she has already gotten bronchitis like three times and with the same symptoms.

[Grrrr]

the most common is albuterol, but if you have some left from a year ago, it's probably expired by now. if it is recurrent, they should be able to order something for you that you can use as needed at this appointment.

[rtforkids]

The mist treatment you're referring to is called Albuterol (also known as Proventil and a few other names). It's only available by prescription, and it can have some unpleasant and dangerous side effects if she's not properly monitored, so it's not something to be given on a trial basis without a doctor's approval. It also does not PREVENT bronchitis.... it's just an adjunct treatment that is tried if the particular patient is short of breath while he/she is sick.My best advice: if your daughter is sick now and your pediatrician won't make time for her, go to a walk-in clinic or find another pediatrician. They shouldn't be putting you off til February if she's sick now. But don't try anything that normally requires a presciption, because the side effects can be damaging (and that's any drug, not just albuterol). Good luck, and I hope your daughter feels better!

[Butterfly Lover]

It's a nebulizer treatment. When she gets it in the hospital there is a medicine that she is breathing. Do you have that already?The other thing you could do is sit her in the shower (maybe on a little stool or even the floor and put a SudaCare tablet in with her. The combination of the steam and the fumes should help decongest her.