One of my twins has had a cough through the night for months. We have a constant stream of colds and bugs from nursery so I haven’t thought too much of it but last night was awful - he was coughing for hours, it’s a dry cough but he was coughing so much he starts gagging. Last night was the first time I really thought this is not right at all.
He’s constantly got a runny nose, and breathes through his mouth often day and night. Snores at night. He’s under a developmental paediatrician (he is autistic but otherwise no health issues) and she’s arranged for an overnight o2 monitor test because of this.
His twin brother had enlarged adenoids as a baby until he was about 2, it gradually got bigger as he grew but when he was little he sounded like a warthog all the time. DT1 is nothing like that - in the day his breathing isn’t noisy and he rarely coughs. But then at night he’s coughing again.
I’ve heard asthma can cause night coughs but he’s never wheezy, so surely it can’t be that?
Going to make a GP appointment to discuss. Annoyingly when we saw the paed a few weeks ago and I mentioned the mouth breathing she said she could refer him to ENT but I said I didn’t think that was necessary (she agreed). Now wondering if I should be more concerned or whether I should wait for the o2 test results.
He can’t tell me what’s wrong and doesn’t demonstrate much awareness of pain or anything which makes it harder to gauge things.