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Robin's illness continues. Her coughing finally woke her up at 5 am. I had her use the inhaler, which we've been practicing with. It seems to not have made a ton of difference. I am not sure I'm using it perfectly, it's hard to get a toddler to comply with a face mask, but I thought it would make more of a difference. I gave it to her 20 min ago

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yikes. i hope maybe a new kind of inhaler might help her, like nutmeg describes. i had asthma growing up and it was terrible. i think it wasn't diagnosed until i was 5 or so, and they had me use an inhaler that i thought was fun -- it puffed the medicine into this accordion-looking device, and i had to inhale it, and the inhale would make the accordion collapse down and make a little musical sound. it was kind of cool. i think by the time i was 6 ot 7 they put me on the regular adult-type inhalers.

my sister always got strep throat when we were young, but she would never test positive for it. and eventually in her teens a doctor ran some new test on her that showed she had this completely atypical strain of strep. to this day she still gets it maybe once a year and has to go on antibiotics for it. she's memorized the strain's scientific name because unless she tells the doctor to look for it, she will get sent in ENDLESS stupid red tape circles since they won't believe that she has strep. i wonder if a similar thing could be happening with robin's diagnosis?

in any case it sounds like the inhaler isn't quite doing its job. but there are definitely other treatments (like the steroidal inhalers) that can help you. it will get better!