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Given the following descriptions, how would you classify your child's asthma?

ref: http://www.filmaust.com.au/programs/tea ... nder5s.pdf

ASTHMA SEVERITY

Although asthma is common in the pre-school age group, the majority of children have a mild form of the disease. Asthma may be divided into the following forms:

1. Mild episodic asthma—this form occurs in about 75% of children, with episodes occurring only with colds and less than every 2 months. Some children may only have 2-3 episodes in their lifetime.

2. Frequent episodic asthma—this form occurs in about 20% of children. The episodes occur every 6-8 weeks or even more frequently and sometimes there are some mild symptoms such as night-time cough or exercise cough/wheeze between episodes.

3. Chronic asthma—this form occurs in less than 5% of children. These children have daily symptoms of cough and/or wheeze, often at night or on wakening and also with exercise. They also may have acute episodes of wheezing with other triggers.

Children with mild episodic asthma may only require relieving medications during the acute episodes of cough/wheeze. Children with frequent episodic asthma and chronic asthma should have regular preventive therapy as well as using relieving medications for treatment of symptoms.

I'm not sure what Ds asthma is classed as.
He had 2 serious episodes within 2 weeks of each other,required predmix and ventolin both times.Soon after that he was put on
singular daily and hasn't had any asthma attacks since,he has been on singular now for about 2 months.

Connor only gets his if running round to much or when he has got a cold, however we also tried the singular and found it fantastic. Nothing while he was on it, also helps with the skin. But does have side affects so we didnt use for long term use as he doesnt get it that often.

i went with "frequent" as it seemed to be the best suited to Jess. though now we have her preventers well under our thumb she's been much better. take her off either preventer and it's on!

My youngest, even on seretide, ventolin and singulair everyday, still has symptoms. He has had many doses of predimix this year and some atrovent and his asthma always worries me.

My DD's asthma has come back and she is now on all of the above, but usually is ok. She was placed in hospital 2 weeks ago, because her asthma was mixing with her whooping cough and she was having trouble breathing, even though she was on all kinds of antibiotics and predimix and atrovent.

This asthma stuff is hard work and worrying.

DS is on daily preventer but I went mild because so long as we stick to giving it to him twice daily we thankfully mainly only have episodic flare ups normally when he has cold etc.

I may have managed to pass on the allergy genes good and proper but the asthma side he seems to be better off than me...

I chose frequent because although Josh's asthma is only relatively recent, it seems to have become quite bad very quickly. He usually only gets it when he's unwell but it seems to be severe when it's around. He has had 3 - 4 doctor visits in the last 2 months related to asthma alone and I have recently purchased a nebuliser for him which I've used about 10 times already when the ventolin puffer doesn't get on top of things. He was back at the doctors again yesterday and the doctor put him on singulair and in the pamphlet it says that it can also help with allergic rhinitis so this is a double bonus for us if it works.

Jasmine gets wheezing fairly frequently if she's running around but her asthma is a lot worse in winter and she was on flixotide jnr during winter as her asthma was becoming a common occurrance.

I think we're pretty lucky though as I know that some kids suffer all year round, regardless of the weather etc.