Our 19 month old son has been on pulmicort for about 6 months. We give it to him twice a day with no side effects. The 2 asthma attacks he had previous to this landed us in the emergency room for breathing treatments of albuterol every 3 hours. A couple of days ago, he was having a dry cough and labored breathing at daycare. My wife rushed him to the emergency room where his breathing was clerened up by Xopenex (albuterol I believe) and we are continuing to administer Xopopnex every 3 to 4 hours and we have an oral steroid which he is on for the second day. His breathing is getting better, but he still appeatrs to need the albuterol. He hasn't had much of the oral steroid, but we'll see the side effects if he has any. Our son, Colton, has asthma, is prone to febrile seizures and multiple food allergies (dairy, eggs, soy and peanuts). I'm not that big of a fan of overmedicating, but what are you going to do in this cuircumstance, right?

Good luck and thank you to everyone out there posting information.