My almost 12 has decided that he doesn't need his puffer preventative. He's chronic. So many hospital stays in his life time, one time he needed to be incubated. Last year was his last bad bout of asthma, when he has the flue.
A few days of no puffer and his mild symptoms kick in. I know when he's been "pretending" to take it.
I know being a kid and having things like asthma can really get a kid down. But how to I make him realise that he could end up in hospital, or even die if an ambulance isn't quick enough....
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Can you research famous people who are asthmatic? See if you there’s someone who plays his favourite sport. Explain that they wouldn’t be able to compete at that level if they didn’t take their asthma meds. Can his doctor talk to him about the consequences of not taking the meds?
My son is heading into his late teens, and while he doesn’t have asthma he does have a chronic lung condition. His idiot father (my ex) has him convinced there’s nothing wrong with him. I feel like I’m at a point where I’m going to have to step back and let him get sick and learn the hard way that he needs to do his physio regularly and take the antibiotics as prescribed when increased physio isn’t enough. Fortunately my son’s condition isn’t life threatening, it’ll reduce the quality of his life when it gets bad enough though.