Ds has a chesty cough, should I keep him indoors and warm, or wrap him up and get him in the fresh air?

[theSuburbanDryad]

I don't think it's anything serious, but last winter he had bronchiolitis really badly, and it sounds the same again. I don't want to go back to the stage where we were mopping up his sick from him coughing so bad every night. Especially not at 6 months pg!

TIA!

[abraid]

I'd wrap him up and take him out for a short period. Not too long. And don't let him get cold.

My son caught pneumonia at 11 months when I took him out in the fog with a very, very slight cold.

[theSuburbanDryad]

Abraid - can't even imagine how scary that must have been for you. I think we will wrap up warm (even though he still refuses to wear gloves or a hat!!) and take a walk to the library!

[Smittals]

I'd say fresh air but cautiously - my DD had a terrible cough/cold recently, was nearly gone and then I took her to the park (bundled up like the michelin man!) Cue another couple of weeks of hacking cough. Can you find a hat with a badge/motif on that your DS likes? - this has helped DD learn to love her 'train hat'!

[abraid]

At least it's not foggy today (not here, anyway). I think it was the fog as much as the cold which was the problem with my son.

[theSuburbanDryad]

It's not damp here at all - lovely and sunny, just cold.

He does love his pirate hat, but it's an actual pirate hat for dressing up IYSWIM and I was hoping he'd keep a woolly hat (preferably with ear flaps) on.

[abraid]

Then when I took my son up to the north of Scotland for Christmas, having had the pneumonia and then bronchiolitis, my in-laws could not understand why I didn't want him out in his pram in the fresh (and very cold) air for longer than about 10 or 15 minutes at a time.

In the end I had to explain that if you've had a serious lung inflammation each breath of cold air feels like surgical spirit on a sore. That's what the doctor explained to me.

Cue FIL talking about how they used to put TB patients in open-air wards even when it snowed.
I explained that pneumonia and TB weren't quite the same.

I'm all for fresh air (sleep with window open a little, etc) go for daily walks, etc, but...

[theSuburbanDryad]

I'd've been hard pushed not to just tell FIL to get fucked, personally, but that's probably just me!

Ds is snuggled up under a blanket on the sofa watching Curious George at the moment, showing no indication of wanting to go out! Maybe we'll leave it till after lunch!

[abraid]

[purplemonkeydishwasher]

UD - my DS is the same. lost his voice completely on Sunday (which was...nice!! ) and has had a chesty cough but has been out the last couple of days, wrapped up warm. SO far today we has only wanted to stay in my bed and watch DVDs.

YAY!! Pyjama day!!!! (too bad i don't ahve a laptop to take up there though!)