My son's breathing sounds normal apart from when he takes a very deep breath, like if he yawns or cries, then his breath doesn't sound clear. Instead it sounds wheezy / rattly. At meal times he also sounds rattly and often does a sort of wrethching type cough at the end of a meal and you wonder if he's going to throw up but doesn't. If he cries alot too, he often coughs and then has a tencency to vomit. If you put your head next to him he sounds totally normal, I guess it's only when he takes a big breath in does it sound raspy.

Does this sound familiar to anyone. been given steroids and the probelms continue, so I'm wondering if could be reflux related.
Any thoughts?
Love Beth
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Sorry if I'm repeating myslef. I think I'm becoming obsessed!

Beth what type of steroids have you tried?? It does sound a lot like asthma to me, but also reflux can make a child very chesty as well, it can also induce asthma like symptoms.

Just given him a course of "Prednisolone" (steroids), but to no avail. Spoke to the consultant again who has suggested we give him an inhaler with something beginning with "a" (can't remember the name). We've given him Subutomol(?) in the past but it didn't work. he said there's something in the UK called "ruttles" that people are talking about which is to do with mucous in the airways????? basically if this new inhaler doesn't work I'll take him to see the consultant and we'll discuss the Ph probe? etc... seems they want to try everything else before doing the ph probe (why is that I wonder?)

the consultant keep asking me "is it the rattliness that wakes him up?" but I really don't know. all I know is that he wakes, cries and as he draws breath it sounds awful, really rattly and I go into my husband and say "he really doesn't sound very good" and so it goes on.

Thanks for listening
Beth

i am sorry but I am unsure of prednisolone, I am assuming it is the same as here, we have something called redi pred and it is used for asthma attacks.

I think that a preventer may help if given at the right dose, a releiver is good but only for the then and now, a preventer will work over time to prevent the asthma even happening.

Drs sometimes let testing for reflux go, especially for the age, but with all his symptoms I would push for it, I think you would get a lot of ideas about what is going on from this.