Monkey is my 13-year-old son. He was diagnosed with asthma last year during spring soccer season. Right from the start, his doctors wondered whether there might be a component of Vocal Cord Dysfunction instead of or in addition to the asthma, based on his descriptions of the attacks.
We felt that the asthma was fairly well under control by the end of soccer season last year, using a combination of daily medications and inhalers to use prior to exercise. However this year, even with all of that in place, he is having a lot of trouble during soccer games. A number of clues have led us to re-examine whether or not some or all of his attacks are actually due to vocal cord dysfunction.
