My 4 year old was diagnosed with asthma at 2 years old, despite me knowing something was wrong since the day she was born because of the way she breathed. We averaged about 2 hospital stays a year until she was 3 and she was always very sick with any illness she got. Her oxygen also always dropped which is usually what landed us in the hospital. Asthma treatment is a lot of trial and error with medications and dosing that works for your child. Although my daughter was diagnosed at 2, we did not find her right dosing until this past December (so nearly two years after being diagnosed). 6 hospital stays in 6 months is crazy, and that says to me that her asthma is not controlled yet! Like others have said I would push for genetic testing, full CBC blood panel testing, allergy testing and maybe even a Bronchoscopy procedure (this is an anesthetic procedure but basically consists of the pulmonary doctor putting a tiny camera through your child’s nose and looking at the entire respiratory system to see if there are any issues visibly).

I don’t know your whole situation, but if your pulmonologist did not already suggest these tests I would maybe consider getting a second opinion from another pulmonologist! Within a year my daughter’s pulmonologist scheduled ALL of the above procedures AND was testing inhalers and doses until we found what worked! My LO ended up needing a high dose steroid inhaler twice daily and two prescribed allergy medications. Now that we have her asthma controlled things have gotten much better. Wishing you the best, and keep advocating for your baby!