But when they checked Jasper, they said that his chest sounded really bad. They had a feeling that he had RSV which is going around daycare like crazy right now. They had me do a nebulizer treatment with him in the office which is just like an Albuterol inhaler. He hated every second of it, but we had to do it in order to open up his lungs and start breaking up some of the stuff in his chest. They said if we didn't take care of it, then it could turn into pneumonia. They put him on bubble gum medicine as well and then wrote me a prescription for our own nebulizer machine and the medication to give the treatment. They told us to do the treatment 2-3 times per day until he sounded better.
By 2 days later, he looked even worse, so I got him in for a late night appointment with a different doctor to have him looked at again. His cheeks were very red and splotchy and it made me wonder if he was getting enough oxygen in his system. They said that he still sounded horrible. We would up his breathing treatments to 4 times per day and change his bubble gum medicine to Augmentin, which is what gives him a really bad diaper rash...but we'll do whatever it takes! The doctor said that if he didn't seem to be getting any better soon, we would possibly try steroids, and then we would have to put him in the hospital if that didn't help. Thankfully, the new medication helped and the extra treatments did too. Within a few days, the Bub started to sound normal again and I'm glad to say that we crossed the hump of another new, and horrible disease.
