Asthma from temporary exposure to a bird and dust
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My daughter helped some friends in Oregon (we live in CA) move. They had a basement type living area that she had to pack up everything. They had not used it for a while so naturally there was a lot of dust and some rat droppings and such. There was also a bird (I think some sort of parrott)that was in the room and she said it looked sickly. The day after she began helping she started having shortness of breath pretty bad. It has been over a month now and she is still really struggling with shortness of breath and exhaustion when walking around to much. We have taken her to a respiratory specialist and he says it is asthma cuased by her surroundings in OR. He has given her Adivar and prednizone neither of which have done any good so far. She has been on the Adivar for a month and she tried the predinozone for about 5 days. She is just as bad as the day she came home. Do you have any thoughts? She has never had a cough with it just very bad shortness of breath all day, every day ( like every third breath is difficult!!!) Thank You!
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The first thing is to make a diagnosis. The lack of response to prednisone and Advair raises doubts about the diagnosis of asthma. If the bird is implicated it could have been infected with psiticossis, this is an infection rather than an allergy. There are specific blood tests for this, some antibiotics can be used for treatment. Of course the bird and the dust may have nothing to do with her ilness.
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