Please don't get used to this. I don't know how I got so lucky that my children are settling back down into a normal bedtime routine, but I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch.
Or as a mixed up card of common quotes that my Dad sent me one time said, "Don't count your chickens before they walk a mile in your shoes."
I hadn't mentioned it before because who has time to blog these days when you are so busy living the life - BUT - Zachary had another asthma attack. We're pretty sure it is due to allergies, but I asked the doctor if it was time to maybe put him on a daily medicine to help with that. Now that my child is not blue in the face again, I can step back and see that maybe he just needed a few days of Benedryl. But the doctor was only too eager to comply and gave me samples and a prescription for Singulair.
Maybe your child or you have had great success with this medicine, and maybe it was because Zach isn't dealing with a chronic asthma problem, but this stuff messed him up.
I mean, he could never be accused of being a compliant kid, and he has been sleeping on the floor instead of his toddler bed for almost a year now because he insisted he was "a big boy for to sleep on the floor not in a baby bed."
A few days after the asthma attack and the start of his nightly Singulair, I realized he was being exceptionally ugly. And not sleeping. Not just the not sleeping well, but in my bed every night. Screaming, crying, nightmares, the whole works. He can be less than cooperative on a good day, but on a day following a night of no sleep which followed a day after the night of no sleep - multiplied by ten or so days and nights - it was awful. He even pushed a kid down at the mall play area, which is highly unusual behavior for him. And no 3 1/2 year old wants to be told "no," but he would get completely out of control at the smallest confrontation. He even told me he didn't want to be happy, he wanted to stay sad.
!!!
I called the doctor right away when he told me that, and we took him off of the Singulair. Ten days later we think we are finally getting our kid back. I missed him. And I missed my sleep and peace of mind.
4 comments:
If you ever have to put Z on Singulair again, disregard the doctor's instructions about giving it to him at bedtime, do early morning! Trust your mother on this! Glad he's feeling better, though.
I have been taking Singular for years with no problems, but as always, "your mileage may vary." Little ones often react differently than adults to otherwise helpful meds. Maybe the dr. can offer an alternative. Blue is not Z's color ;)
As a fellow mother of a child with asthma I feel the pain, oh how I feel it.
We've been using Flovent and haven't noticed any side effects except the weak insurance coverage on the bill.
I'm with your mom, though, above all trust your intuition and trust your mother. :)
Hi! :) Since we've dealt w/Sofi's asthma since she was 11 mo - I thought I might "chip" in. Our doc did not put Sofi on Singulair til she was 4. Prior to that we used Pulmicort (which you use w/machine and mask)....it was daily and we did it in the morning.....but - that being said, the best control we have had for her is controlling her environment. If there were any croupy kids around - to them it was just a cough and runny nose - for Sofi, we would be dealing w/asthma attacks and pneamonia ....and the cold air sets her off - Nov-Feb is the worst so we control how much she was allowed out and make sure she isn't breathing in too much frigid air. And a daily claritin works wonders!! You will figure out how things work w/Z - what sets him off and how to control it. Praying for him!!
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