I am at the end of my tether now. dd has had a cough since october that wont clear up. She coughs continually in bouts until she is sick and it is almost as though she has no breath left before she sort of shrugs and carries on with what she doing. She is 11 months old and it is waking her from sleep so we all shattered and she just looks like a poor wee soul now. In october my other 2 dc's had croup and as they got better dd3 came down with the cough but it wasn't croup. One weekend i took her to ooh gp who admitted her for a couple of hours because of a high temp and the cough. Temp was 40.9 at the time. She had a chest x ray to rule out pneumonia etc. 2 visits to the gp later she has ventolin??? This isn't working either. The cough has stayed sounding the same and gp has never actually heard it. Tried to video her but cant get her coughing as always trying to sort at time.
A friend came over today and heard her cough for the first time..actually waking her from sleep and the first thing she said was get her seen at a&e...if that was her dc she wouldn't budge till they found out what it was cos it sounds like she choking. I dont know what to do now..in between coughing fit she seems fine and i don't know if i am just so used to the cough that it isn't too bad but at the same time i am aware it is bad but how do i go about getting someone to listen...i would end up in a&e with a 'well baby' unless she coughs...
sorry for the long post..desperate now..she must be sore from coughing all the time and exhausted
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ill baby.. please can anyone advise
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babybear5 · 27/01/2011 20:42
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