Is anyone familiar with Atelectasis?

Have you or your child had it? Please share your experience. What was the cause? How was it treated? How long until it resolved? Yes, I have a call booked with his respirologist, but also interested in some firsthand experiences from other moms.

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What's going on with the little dudes?

I think my brother experienced this from a severe asthma attack as a teenager, but I'll have to ask him or my mom about it. I hope your little guy is doing ok! And I hope you're hanging in there too. I'll light a candle for his health ✨

@Zainab🗝️ he’s had recurring pneumonia and so I brought him to urgent care on Monday for an xray and they saw this. So now I’m not sure if it’s new or the pneumonia was misdiagnosed (three times 🙃). https://chatgpt.com/share/67fee60b-b5fc-800c-9cdc-e7caf32242a6

@Genevieve now I'm worried because one of mine has had recurring pneumonia. He also gets ear infections a lot. They won't listen to me the first time I take him because autistic kids don't show symptoms the same way.

@Zainab🗝️ Lucas seems unbothered by the cough but it sounds terrible and is way worse at night. You can also hear a rasp in his breathing all the time. The doctor tried to brush me off, and was basically like “does he look like a sick child to you?” I almost said “does he look like a child who’s had 2 major surgeries in the last 14 months to you?” I even had to push for the X-rays, and then he tried to downplay the findings and just told me to follow up with our family doctor (technically I guess there was nothing else he could do, tbh). I decided to follow up with his respirologist instead. I hate that they expect kids to “perform” being sick in a certain way, instead of believing a mom who knows her kid.