Our Respiratory therapist wanted my daughter to start doing her own breathing treatments. Start the process before she becomes a teen. SHe's 9. Today she did all her treatments herself; with me watching. I did education like what the meds are for; generic names for meds what they do. She was motivated to do it. Wowza; not bad for 9.
Breathing treatments
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Mommafirst
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EXCELLENT!!! My daughter is getting there, but not quite ready.
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kross10911
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Thats great! I wish my mother had done that. She just has never come to terms with my CF and set me up for a bad situation ( didnt educate or make me do my meds) that I am just now getting resolved at the age of 25. To this day I feel like I ask my doctors things I should have known YEARS ago.
beautifulsoul
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GREAT parenting skills! & medical knowledge as well. FANTASTIC for a 9 year old! Wish I could have done that myself <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
Keep it up! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Keep it up! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
JennyCoulon
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Our 12 year old has to handle his treatment in the mornings before school and I does better good. I get him up at 6:00 am when I am getting ready to leave for work so he can get started with his albuterol and 30 mins of Vest. He does his Tobi and then Advair puffer and then gets ready for the day. We are trying to get to where he does all of his stuff without having to be told but we are having a tough time with that. The morning he can handle but the night he needs help. I am not going to throw him to the wolves but I think it is time that he starts to take some responsibility for his own health. I do make a list for him but he tells me, mom I don't need the list and then he forgets something.
Our 12 year old pretty much does it on his own. If he is off scheudle, like right when school got out he needed prompting but then pretty much sets it up himself. He ususally forgets to get his cayston out and ready before he starts so we usually get that going for him. He manages his feeding pump pretty much by himself. The onlything he can't do is hang the bag, because he is still too short. I am still waiting for the day when he can swallow his enyzmes whole and we can forego the spoons and ketchup! Unfortunelty he has his dads' gag reflex and still can't do it.
JennyCoulon
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HD-Our 12 year old also sets up his night feeds by himself and he just recently started swallowing any kind of pill. We actually got a hand out from the CF clinic with some tips and one was to put the pill (start with a small one) in pudding and just have them swallow it and the pill will go right with it. Our son did that and I couldn't believe he actually did it. He swallows all pills now just with water and he just started doing this within the past 2 months at the most. He take Prevacid the generic capsule which is the same size as his Zenpep but he has yet to actually swallow the Zenpep yet. (We are working on this and it should happen soon, HOPEFULLY). Good luck.