momma's intuition

hi all! i'm sure you have a lot of concerned momma's on here asking questions about their babies symptoms. sorry to be another one, but i need some feedback... my son is 20 months old and has had recurrent bouts of wheezing and coughing since the age of 5 months. we have had 2 ER visits and 1 hospital stay (for the flu) last february. at that time a chest x-ray was performed which was read as "bronchiectasis". a follow up scan over a month later once he had recovered from the flu was unchanged. i am a physician assistant and know that bronchiectasis is not a normal or incidental finding. based off of my own research, it seems as though the most common cause of bronchiectasis in a kiddo is cf. anyone have any experience with this in your little one? aside from the abnormal chest x-ray, wheezing, and cough, my little guy has a constant runny nose...always thick and yellow-green. initially, i chalked it up to allergies, but he's been on zyrtec daily for awhile now with no significant improvement. we just moved to a new city and i finally forced a referral to a well-respected pedi pulmonology group, but our appt isn't until next month. my gut tells me cf should be on my radar and this is more than just asthma/allergies. i've been so focused on the breathing issues for so long that i just overlooked the frequent bowel movements, but he definitely has had frequent, foul stools since the early months. as a health care provider, it's easy to get in the "hypochondr...
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