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West Suffolk Hospital


Cold and Hayfever ramps up the symptoms

My son is 5 years old and he has had to experience a couple of overnight hospital stays with severe wheezing. Thankfully they now have got him on the right medication which seems to be helping a lot. I find colds and hayfever ramps up his symptoms of asthma. We have an asthma plan and we are comfortable with it. We are happy with the speed of the response from professionals , we know that he can't get a formal asthma diagnosis until he is 6 years old, but we are nearly there and they seem as through they are treating him for asthma already. I would say that the staff in the Childrens outpatient clinic are wonderful. We used to go to Essex hospital when we lived there and we find the communication is better at this hospital.