03/12/2026
PATIENT OF THE WEEK. Hospitalized 8 times for ASTHMA ATTACKS! Pictured are all his meds mom is finally throwing away. ❤️🙏🏻 In moms own words. My son started seeing Dr. Rettig just over one year ago. This came after 3 very hard years. My son was labeled "severely asthmatic." However, the asthma only presented when he caught certain viruses. The viruses would go to his lungs and affect his ability to maintain his oxygen levels. Over this 3 year period, he had been hospitalized 8 times. Two of which, he was put in the PICU. We were closely followed by a pulmonologist, allergist, and our pediatrician. We had a team. At first, we started the routine asthma medications and procedures. But every hospitalization, those medications were deemed "failures" and they would change up the medication, up the m3dication, or add additional medications. He ended up on almost every type of inhaler and nebulizer solutions at one point or another. He even was put on an injectable biologic (every 2 weeks) for the last year of this period. These 3 years also included a lot of steroids. Sadly, he experienced one of the side effects of steroids, which caused him to be "easy to agitate." After pushing doctors to find solutions outside of medication and not getting much traction, we started down our own path of discovery. This is when I discovered Dr. Rettig. His ways were unfamiliar to me, but after 3 years of being scared about your child's ability to breath, I was ready to turn over every stone. So I trusted the process. After six months, my son was off of all his inhalers and steroids. Soon after, he also came off of the biologic injection. He has not been hospitalized in 14 months and is now drug free. His agitation has lessened and I can breath better knowing that he can breath. Dr. Rettig helped heal his body so it was ready to fight off viruses on its own. We are so grateful for the help he has and does provided.