DD thrown up coughing

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So my DD is 3, she has had a cough since start of November that won't go, during the day you don't notice it, but overnight it's bad, to the point tonight she has thrown up because of it. I'm wondering asthma as I am asthmatic, any suggestions to help the overnight cough? I presume no nursery tomorrow cause she has been sick.

Sorry to hear DD is having such an awful time with this cough. I thought about asthma too but another thing with a cough that makes children throw up is whooping cough. Does she make any unusual sounds when coughing or when the coughing causes her to throw up?

Hope she is feeling better soon. My DD is 3 and suffers badly with coughs. She’s never unwell with them but they last weeks and she’s often sick.

To be honest, assuming my DD is well in herself we carry on as normal (obviously not in the early stages when she could be infectious) as they go on for weeks. I still send her to nursery too if she’s been sick from coughing - it tends to be a bit ‘different’ to normal sick though so know it’s not a bug.

If it’s gone in for 3 weeks though I’d get advice from a GP. My DD was recently prescribed antibiotics for a cough she’d had for a month and it cleared up within a few days.

Contact the GP. It could be any number of things and she's had it for a long time now.

Any chance it could be a dust mite allergy? If it is worse at bedtime it would make sense.

My DS had the same thing, coughed at night on and off for the better part of a year! We saw the dr so many times, used humidifiers to make his room easier to sleep in. Eventually turned out that he has episodic asthma and needed a ventolin inhaler. Stopped it immediately. Cannot believe the dr did not pick this up all those times I took him in.

Good luck with getting the cough sorted in your DD. It’s exhausting for them coughing that much to the point of being sick, poor little thing.

Cough variant asthma. DS used to have this but he’s growing out of it.
GP for inhalers.

My DD is nearly 3, she had this sort of cough for months, she was sick a couple of times too. We went back and forth to the doctor, nothing but advice that 'coughs can linger in children'. Eventually she had a really bad episode one night and we had to take her to A&E struggling to breathe. They gave her ventolin inhalers, diagnosed a 'preschool viral wheeze' rather than asthma but the inhaler is like magic. She woke up last night with an awful bout of coughing that in the past would have ended up with sick and stopped her sleeping. She had the inhaler and was back off in less than half an hour. Definitely try gp and ask about inhalers.

Yes, please have her tested for asthma. Our youngest was exactly the same, also at 3. (Is the cough also brought on going from cold to warm environment? That was one of his major triggers, along with mould spores).
Ventolin prescription stopped it in its tracks on first use.
Many years on, it’s very well controlled with daily beclametasone , doesn’t affect their life negatively at all.

I was going to say whooping cough too.

Assuming she's not whooping when she coughs, I would say asthma too. My son gets this sometimes, nursery don't mind him going in if it's sickness from coughing as they know he has asthma and I've always kept him off in the past when it's been a stomach bug. (He does like to tell them when he's been sick!)

I would take her to the GP today for a check up, but it sounds like an inhaler will help. They are really magic when needed. They won't diagnose asthma at her age, the hope is that they grow out of it by school age.