"I don't want to Mommy. No nebulizer".
But everything is better with a Popsicle
Friday, May 25, 2007
The Nebulizer
The Little Man HATES the nebulizer. Hate is actually an understatement. He screams at the top of his lungs and fights me like pit bull. It's so hard to wait the 10 minutes for the treatment to be done. I always wonder if the neighbors think I'm beating him because of the way he carries on. Today the DHL man came to the door while I was giving him a treatment. Oh, I bet we'll be the "story of the week" for all his friends this weekend.
"I don't want to Mommy. No nebulizer".
But everything is better with a Popsicle
"I don't want to Mommy. No nebulizer".
But everything is better with a Popsicle
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6 comments:
Poor guy!! (And poor Mom! :) )
I'm glad the popsicle helps.
Barbara H. @ Stray Thoughts
i was thinking the same thing. poor guy but he'd be really sick without it, ya gotta do it. and yes popcicles help esp if it was as warm today there as it was here in nyc!
Awwww the poor little guy but soon he'll be old enough to realize that the nebulizer is for helping him. If I behave can I have a popsicle too?? hehe xox
oh man he does look upset! Thank goodness for popsicles :)
Poor little guy. I now know sometimes we have to do things they don't like because it's good for them. I hate it, but I accept it. And I have a big stash of sugar-free popsickles in the freezer now. Little miracle workers, those popsickles. :-)
I don't mean to pop my head in and give advice...but he's miserable...your miserable..so I'm going to stick my nose in. Please know I'm just offering advice. Take it, leave it, discuss it with your physician, ignore it, it's up to you. I'm a respiratory therapist and in our pediatric urgent care unit we don't even use nebulizers anymore. We use inhalers with special pediatric little masks. We show the kids what we're going to do. We put the little mask up over their nose and mouth (ours are yellow) press the inhaler, they breathe in a couple of times and it's all done except for repeating it a couple of times. I usually let the child play with the inhaler for a second and put it with the mask over mom or dad's face to show them what's going to happen. Literally, treatment takes a couple of minutes and I've never had a huge problem. Great for them, great for you, great for us. I will say that some general docs are a little resistant to the idea because they don't know that it can work the same but most pulmonologists (because lungs are their business) are up on the latest research showing that inhalers, used correctly are just as effective as nebulized treatments in adults and children. If you'd like references on that to take to your doc, just email from blog link and I'll be happy to get them for you.
It's an option.
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