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The drug my GS has taken since he was 2 to keep his "childhood wheeze" under control (They don't call it asthma now until 5+). Two hospitalisations because it was bad but goodness knows what would have happened without his medication.
When we were children asthma was very rarely named until we were around ten. We were just known as wheezy children. For me, with a history of hay fever and eczema since babyhood, it was obvious that it was asthma, particularly as there was also a family history of it. The medication was rudimentary at that time to say the least. In many ways, this was a good family as most children grow out of the tendency by the age of ten, thankfully, and there seemed to be a phase not so long ago of labelling every child with a mild wheeze or breathlessness as suffering from asthma. Obviously, it is different for your grandson as it was for my son and me, but, on the whole, I think it is a better idea not to label most children with a dignosis of asthma.