Our 7 month old boy has had a cold for a couple of weeks, it has developed into a really awful cough, it comes on mainly at night when he coughs so much he is sick.
He ends up in tears and really upset and very red in the face and it is so upsetting for us.In the day he gets maybe two or three big bursts of it but nothing in between. We have looked online and I am terrified it is whooping cough.
We took him to the GP yesterday and he was awful, he said he can't hear anything on his chest and that he is coughing for attention and sent us away. I felt like crying as it isn't at all, the poor boy has barely slept, is red around his eyes and pale, and the cough seems to be getting worse.
Would it be bad to take him to a&e over this, or am I overreacting?
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7m baby, awful cough, and doctors are useless
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brains · 01/09/2006 19:00
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