Question about Atrovent

[Guest guest]

Heart Rate will go up a little bit. JD takes it twice a day.

& , parents to twins: Olivia and JD(cHArgE: Choanal Atresia, Heart

Repair, TE-F Repair, G-Tube, Trach , Hernia Repair , severe to profound

hearing loss, OFF the VENT ) 14 months , Waxahachie, Texas

[Guest guest]

we used it for years, erika has angle closure glaucoma, as it turns out, it

increases the glaucoma pressure. it did help w/secretions and inflamation,

but we had to stop b/c her eye pressures went up

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

Does anyone have experience with Atrovent? Felix saw a pulmonologist

last week for the first time and she is recommending it to decrease

secretions in his trachea (to complement the Botox in his salivary

glands). I will have to give him a nebulizer treatment 3 times a day,

which we haven't done before... Also any side effects of note?

Thanks for your help!

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the response! Do you feel like it has helped to dry JD's

secretions? Is that why he is taking it?

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> Heart Rate will go up a little bit. JD takes it twice a day.

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>

> & , parents to twins: Olivia and JD(cHArgE: Choanal

Atresia, Heart

> Repair, TE-F Repair, G-Tube, Trach , Hernia Repair , severe to

profound

> hearing loss, OFF the VENT ) 14 months , Waxahachie, Texas

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

my 14 month old son has atrovent for the same thing but he doesnt get botox it

helps him alot i havent seen any side affects his dose is 1 vial 3 times a day

Question about Atrovent

Hi all,

Does anyone have experience with Atrovent? Felix saw a pulmonologist

last week for the first time and she is recommending it to decrease

secretions in his trachea (to complement the Botox in his salivary

glands). I will have to give him a nebulizer treatment 3 times a day,

which we haven't done before... Also any side effects of note?

Thanks for your help!

[Guest guest]

HI ,

My daughter has been a continous user of Atrovent since she was 12 months old,

she is now 2years and 8 months old and has no side affects at all.

She is a chronic asthmatic and yes it as helped with her secretions.

Cheers NIcole x

AUstralia

kzkoehler wrote: Hi all,

Does anyone have experience with Atrovent? Felix saw a pulmonologist

last week for the first time and she is recommending it to decrease

secretions in his trachea (to complement the Botox in his salivary

glands). I will have to give him a nebulizer treatment 3 times a day,

which we haven't done before... Also any side effects of note?

Thanks for your help!

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[Guest guest]

I feel silly asking you this, because I know that you are the kind of mom who

follows through on this stuff, but...has had any treatment for her narrow

angles (like a peripheral iridotomy)? There are lots of medications that

slightly dilate the pupils (all the ones marked " Do not take this medication if

you have glaucoma " ), which is when angle closure is most likely for people with

narrow angles. As young as she is, if she hasn't it would be worth looking

into--especially since as she gets older if anything her angles will become

narrower (because of growth of the lens).

Does her Dr. think her narrow angles have anything to do with CHARGE, or

coloboma (if she has one), or is it just something she has independent of

CHARGE?

(mom to Evan, 16 months)

NPTQueenie@... wrote:

we used it for years, erika has angle closure glaucoma, as it turns

out, it

increases the glaucoma pressure. it did help w/secretions and inflamation,

but we had to stop b/c her eye pressures went up

[Guest guest]

,

Yes has had a lensectomy and the drain put it, now the pressures have

continued to rise. she is on 5 drops a day. we have been fearing a shunt

for the last 2 years. We actually, just recently heard about a procedure they

are doing in Germany that ehy may be able to do her soon.

The angle closure glaucoma is an indirect result of the eye defect, never

developing completely and the smallness to the iris, and it being to " tight " in

their allowing the fluid to release. This hit us by surprise a bout 5 years

ago at a regular semi annual opthamologic check up, the next day we were on

our way to Boston.

We now are followed in Philly.

We stay away from medications that are not good for glaucoma, occassionally,

if she is really sick we have to give her something to get her breathing

under control.

Cathie, mom to

[Guest guest]

My son, Bradley, has been on Atrovent nebulizer for quite a few years and

there has been no side effects. ck

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>Reply-To: CHARGE

>To: CHARGE

>Subject: Question about Atrovent

>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:40:28 -0000

>

>Hi all,

>

>Does anyone have experience with Atrovent? Felix saw a pulmonologist

>last week for the first time and she is recommending it to decrease

>secretions in his trachea (to complement the Botox in his salivary

>glands). I will have to give him a nebulizer treatment 3 times a day,

>which we haven't done before... Also any side effects of note?

>

>Thanks for your help!

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

, no she had a lensectomy and an iridectomy. This was to help with the

intraocular pressure and to open the angle. the thickness of the anterior

chamber also makes the pressure higher. she is on azopt 2x/day , alphagan

2x/day and xalatan 1/day. this is the max for what they can do. they are

constantly coming up with new things they can do, this proceudre they are doing

in

Germany sounds promising. i would like them to have more experience with it

first. so the longer we can keep her pressures the down, the better and the

more time they have to find new things. it seems after a while she becomes

reslient to the drops, that is why we have added new and more. we have the

pressures checked every 3 months at CHOPS. Unfortunately, this eye was the

better seeing eye before they removed the lens.

so as i said, we try to stay away from medications that can increase the

pressure, but sometimes we have to weigh what is more pressing at the time.

going back to atrovent - it did make a difference, and help w/inflamtion and

secretions.

Cathie

[Guest guest]

Cathie,

I had no idea--that is so much for her and you to go through. Three meds is

considered " maximum medical therapy " for glaucoma--it sounds like you are there

and then some. When you say she had a drain put in, do you mean a filtering

bleb (looks like a blister/bubble on the white part of the eye, usually

superiorly)? Did the bleb fail? I will keep you guys in my thoughts and

prayers, and hope she doesn't need a shunt (I'm curious what the new procedure

in Germany is). Thanks for humoring my questions.

(mom to Evan, 16 months)

NPTQueenie@... wrote:

,

Yes has had a lensectomy and the drain put it, now the pressures have

continued to rise. she is on 5 drops a day. we have been fearing a shunt

for the last 2 years. We actually, just recently heard about a procedure they

are doing in Germany that ehy may be able to do her soon.

The angle closure glaucoma is an indirect result of the eye defect, never

developing completely and the smallness to the iris, and it being to " tight " in

their allowing the fluid to release. This hit us by surprise a bout 5 years

ago at a regular semi annual opthamologic check up, the next day we were on

our way to Boston.

We now are followed in Philly.

We stay away from medications that are not good for glaucoma, occassionally,

if she is really sick we have to give her something to get her breathing

under control.

Cathie, mom to