long term antibiotics?

[Loopylinz]

any advice? our youngest keeps having chest infections and is really wheezy all the time, so much so thats shes 1 next month and so far has only had her 1st set of baby jabs as everytime we take her the nurse says shes not well enough to have them.
shes on a blue inhaler and the doctor has given her some powder to widen her airways at night but he was talking about her going on long term antibiotics to try and give her a boost through the colder months, he suspects she ashmatic as both me and hubby are but is difficult to diagnose properly until shes bigger, he said another option would be steroid inhalers, but i wasnt sure on that! shes just finishing off her first week of antibiotics and im taking her to the docs 2morrow.
does anyone know of any side affects of long term antibiotics? hes also saying shes overweight aswell which isnt helping her chest and to reduce her milk/food intake. i told him its just puppy fat and when she starts toddling it will drop off, i really dont want to put her on a diet!
i feel so crap about all of this because i look at her and think what can  i do to make her better and is anything i am doing making her worse!

[Miss Halo]

I saw her on Saturday and I would quit worrying. From what Kaj said to you (and I agree from watching her with her siblings), she is healthy, alert, happy and thriving as she is.

She will lose a lot as she gets mobile and works off the extra calories, but if she really won't drink anything other than milk like you said, carry on with what you are doing - drop a couple of the spoons of powdered milk to what they should be. That way, she still gets milk, but it's not packed with all the calories and fattening stuff.

I know you can get hungry baby powder, but is there something similar for the opposite? Mine were and are breast fed, so I don't really know much about the types you can get.

With the injections, the doctors should know best and I would personally listen to them, because if she is poorly, you may make her a whole lot worse by insisting on her having the jabs. It didn't do my son any harm and he was late having his 4 month set as he was in hospital with his heart abnormality at the time. Kaj will have to tell you about the medication bit, as he will be able to give you loads of details and info!

[Loopylinz]

thanks, and i am taking the line of stopping worrying, shes my little pudding, and i know shes chubby but shes a baby and im sure she will walk off the rollssssssss of puppy fat!! :roll:

[Miss Halo]

Well there you go - can't be too poorly if she is up to pinching toys while the others aren't looking!

Good nic for her too - pudding is cute and she does look like one. Our baby is called Porky, so you aren't alone!!

[cherokee]

any advice? our youngest keeps having chest infections and is really wheezy all the time, so much so thats shes 1 next month and so far has only had her 1st set of baby jabs as everytime we take her the nurse says shes not well enough to have them.
shes on a blue inhaler and the doctor has given her some powder

My Julia, 10 months old, has been diagnosed with athma. Well, I was not surprised, as we both my and my husband suffer from hayfever and had childrens asthma. What is annoying me is the fact, that there are no allergy specialists in this country, whereas in Poland they are available in each major surgery. Doctor told me as well, that there is a hayfever jab on the market, but they are not allowed to prescribe it, because it is to expensive. They do not do allergy tests neither.
So, she endet up with both blue and brown inhalers, I can see improvement after a week of using them, but I cannot imagine her being on them for a while. But at least my GP knows what asthma and hayfever are about and after antibiotics did not help, he stopped them. When I suggested hayfever to other GP in the same surgery, she nearly laughed in my face. Sometimes I wonder how incompetent people can be, even being well paid.