My little girl is 6 months and has had a cold for 5 weeks now. The first week she had a low grade fever which was kept at bay with Calpol and since she's just been snotty and coughing.
She's happy enough in herself but the cough wakes her up at night which makes for exhausted parents! She's sleeping a lot in the day (2 hour+ naps!) which I expect is normal if she's unwell.
Last week she had conjunctivitis on top of it all for 8 days....
I've been using saline to help with her blocked nose and I think the coughing is more as a result of the mucus from her nose irritating her throat than a chest infection or anything. I've also been putting Karvol on a muslin on the side of her cot.
I've been to the doctors twice: after 10 days of cold when she was coughing so much she would throw up after her feeds and once when she had the conjunctivitis. Both times I was just reassured and told that the cold would eventually clear. I'm a first time mum and don't know if there's anything else I could be doing to make her more confortable and help her get over this nagging cold...
Any help?? :(
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Children's health
6mo baby with lingering cold
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CAbbas · 08/11/2010 15:18
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