DS is 8 months old and has suddenly come down with what is currently suspected to be croup.
He was absolutely fine this morning, I noticed he was slightly hoarse at lunchtime when babbling then had slightly noisy breathing during his afternoon nap. I managed to get him seen by the GP at pm and heart, lungs, oxygen saturation and temperature were all fine. He ate dinner as normal, breastfed as normal and went down fine for bed then woke an hour later with very noisy breathing (inspiratory stridor).
111 sent an ambulance then the paramedics advised us to go to A&E. We were there for 6 hours, they tried to send us home at 2am to just monitor him but then the stridor got worse so another doctor had a look and prescribed some oral steroid. This improved the stridor and we were discharged at 4am but since getting home 90 minutes ago his breathing has been very noisy again. I'm sitting up with him and he's sleeping upright on my chest at the moment.
Croup is the working diagnosis at the moment but everything I read says they have a barking cough and stridor when exerted. DS hasn't coughed at all and his stridor is constant. They said to take him back any time and that he might need another steroid dose later today.
I'm worried it's not actually croup as he's not coughing. Any experiences?