I posted a message to the Any mom lives in USA now (part 6) forum a couple times, but not sure why it's not showing. Anyway maybe it's good to start a new topic for moms (and dads) who has an asthmatic child at home and share our experience.
Besides croc meat, 椰子燉田雞 is also good for asthma.
Ingredients:
1 old coconut (the brown ones, not 椰青)
1 frog (fresh is better than frozen)
1 tiny slice of ginger
Steps:
1. Get the juice of the coconut out (there are 3 dots on the top of the coconut, use a clean screw driver to break 2 of the dots and let out the juice into a bowl)
2. Cut the top of the coconut off with a saw (my c6 bought an electrical saw just for this because it’s really hard to do it manually)
3. Clean the frog and cut it into a few pieces
4. Put the frog and ginger into the coconut
5. Filter the juice and put it back to the coconut (there will be some leftover juice since the frog has taken some space)
6. Put back the top of the coconut. Basically you are using the coconut as a 燉盅。
7. 燉 2 hours
The soup tastes good and it’s much cheaper than croc meat. But it’s hard to find good coconut and prepare it as a燉盅. Many coconuts in the grocery stores are 發mo. Also it’s rather scary to prepare the frog (I’m more used to it now, but still…), but it works pretty well. A couple of my cousins on my father side also had asthma, but they drank the soup from Oct to Feb for two years in a row when they were a kid. They haven’t had any asthma attack since then (they are now in their late 20’s). So I guess it’s 斷尾.
My 4-year old boy also has asthma. He drank 1/3 bowl of the soup every day last winter and last spring. Depending on the size of coconut, we prepare the soup once every 3-5 days. We are giving him the soup again this winter. He’s very easy to get a cold and will cough forever. We need to give him inhaled steroid and albuterol (in some cases he even needs oral steroid). This year I notice that he coughs much less and recovers faster. I don’t think the soup really cures or stops the cough, but instead it helps to make the 氣管stronger and less sensitive to cold air and cold drinks, etc. Try it out!
Yes I think we chatted in the "studying overseas" forum before.
So how are your kids now? Hope they feel better. You have to take care of yourself too! Taking care of an asthmatic child is like a long term battle. We can support each other!!
I haven't used Pulmicort before. My son is prescribed Qvar which is a steriod inhalor. The doctor suggested us to use it on my son (also named Justin) twice a day for the entire winter. We did it last year, but we are not using it this winter as I mentioned Justin is so far so good this year. I also hesitate to give him steriod on a regular basis, but I was told the inhaled version is much better than the oral form in terms of side effect. Plus the oral steriod tastes really awful, even mixed with yogurt or chocolate syrup. So maybe you'd better listen to the doc to use it on Karina to prevent her from getting any more asthma attack. You know, asthma attack can be life-threatening!
My father side family has the history of asthma, luckily I don't have it, but unfortunately it's passed to my son. In my family, boys are easier to have it. Not sure about yours. Anyway, be extra careful with your baby Justin. It might be easy for him to get it too. Hope they all get well very soon to have a happy holiday!!
No, I don't have allergen free cover for Justin. Does it really work?
You must be very disciplined to fight asthma. My dad has it since he was a little kid, he is over 50 years old now and still has it. Because he insists on drinking cold drinks, eating cold fruits, don't exercise....
So you have first hand experience with asthma yourself and must be miserable to see your daughter suffering from the same thing.
原文章由 culver 於 07-12-21 06:58 發表
Mrschao,
Thanks, I know I have to keep myself healthy in order to take care of my 2 kids. Last week I slept for maybe 3-4 hours per night. This week is a little bit better because Karina recovered al ...
culver, before Justin was diagnosed with asthma, he also did a skin test and the allergy specialist found nothing. But it was also this specialist heard Justin had some wheezing sound for the very firwst time. So it was good that we brought him to see this specialist. Justin just started to cough again these couple days. I have to put him back on the inhaler. Hope he will get well soon.
I know that cold weather and cold drink will trigger asthma. I didn't know that stress can too. That's good to know. But as a mother of two, it's rather hard for you to be not stressed bor.
SY_mom, I can understand why the parents are willing to risk even if they are not sure what's in the chinese medicine. Maybe if Justin was really desperate, I would do the same too. But for kids under 2 years old, that's really dangerous. I agree with you that you need to find a very trustful doctor in the first place.
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