hey hun

all i can say is push the point,because when my 3year old was 6 weeks old and there was somethig wrong with him all my docters said was he was  fine and that i was paranoid and it was my first time being a parent but then he started to have brething difficltys and i was more worried took him to hospital and they also said the same thing it took me 5 times going to the hospital to find someone to listen to me and finally  i found out that he had a very bad bug and asked me why no one had picked it up sooner he was on oxygen stright away and i found out that there were 5 other babys with the same thing

soo go with your gut intinct i did and if i didnt i wouldnt have my beautiful boy

My daughter was diagnosed with asthma at the age of 14 months- if there are predisposing factors then a diagnosis may be made prior to 2 years of age, including family history and repeated episodes of bronchiolitis.  If there is a wheeze or cough associated with the faster breathing then it may be asthma.

another issue to consider may be pulmonary hyertension, its rare but treatable, and could also account for the increased breathing rate.

cystic fibrosis may not necessarily be picked up in the initial guthrie and a sweat test may be ordered to rule that one out.

another rare condition is tracheomalacia- where the upper airway collapses a little during breathing, causing increased breathing rate, increased work of breathing and sometimes noisy breathing.

they are the ones that i can think of off the top of my head (i am very tired today)............i hope the specialist can find an answer for you.

xx josie

aparently at his age they cant give him ventolin :/

And in australia they cant diagnose asthma till 2 when there is no family history or history of exma.

My daughter just got diagnosed at 18 months (her breathing is NOWHERE near as bad as jays) Because I have asthma and she is always having probs with ecxma.

The hospital said they could diagnose jay at 1 because breanna AND me have it...

It would just be nice to have an answer... im really hoping that asthma is the answer because asthma is somethng i can deal with... it can be treated its a normal thing.

The other possibiltys are kinda scary and most involve surgurey

I have 2 year old twins that were born 6 1/2 weeks early. From very early on, when they have a cold they wheeze heavily and breathe fast. From the first time I took them to the doctor (at only a few months old), they have diagnosed them with asthma. Now at 2, they still get asthma when they get a cold.

I am in the U.S., so the procedure is probably a lot different from Australia. But during the first time I took the to the pediatrician and I said they wheeze, the first thing they do is to check their blood oxygen level to make sure they're getting enough oxygen. And they do. Then they put them on a nebulizer with ventolin and then checked their breathing after that to check for wheezing. When the wheezing is much reduced, they say it's asthma.  So we were sent home with a nebulizer and ventolin and some steroid to use with it.

Your child could have asthma and may just occasionally need some breathing treatment. I hope this is the case and nothing more serious.

Good luck.

The symptoms you're describing sound like the same sort've symptoms my son had before we were told he had asthma. Brent isn't here so I can't ask what age babies/toddlers are usually diagnosed or given ventilin. I can say though that predmix helped a great deal and is also good for fighting off colds, fevers and ear ache. The predmix helped the raspiness in his breath. He was on ventilin for about a week and then it disappeared.