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18 month old coughing all night please help!

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EE13 · 25/11/2024 08:38

I am totally at loss here. It is all my fault. I feel so guilty. We are living abroad with DH and DS. I gave birth ( c-section) in June 2023. . Everything was fine baby growing and developing perfectly. As time passed however I started to want to have little bit of help/ me time/ start to go back to work etc. So we decided to put baby in kindergarten 1 per week from October. And it has been a nightmare ever since. After just the first time there we all got sick with norovirus. Than after two weeks he started coughing. We were trying everything ( baby cough syrup, Vicks baby rub..) nothing worked. He had low grade fever for days. Then finally thedoctor prescribed some antibiotics. Everything seemed to go well so he went again to the kindergarten on Friday. On Sunday we were by the emergency as his fever elevated really high. They told us there is nothing to do this time it’s a virus. I let his body fight it and gave suppository only with very high fever. We were flashing his sinuses with salty water spray. He has humidifier in his room and this annoying cough came back. I am so devastated I really don’t know what to do how to help. He didn’t sleep at night at all. I started to give him little bit of manuka honey but I am afraid because I don’t know if it’s safe at this age. Nothing that works with me as an adult ( like Vicks vaporub) can be used on babies. I even put in a pillow for him though I was afraid the whole night. Nothing works. I am desperate. I shouldn’t have let him go to kindergarten. I should have kept him home with me. Does any of you have any idea what to do? Tomorrow we have our doctor in the office but I don’t want an other round of antibiotics..

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TinyMouseTheatre · 25/11/2024 16:44

Hokey is perfectly safe after 12 months so don't worry about that.

He may have benefited from staying at home on Friday but no parent gets everything right and there's no way of knowing that if he had stayed home, the outcome would have been any different.

How is his temperature now and is he having plenty of fluids?

EE13 · 25/11/2024 17:05

TinyMouseTheatre · 25/11/2024 16:44

Hokey is perfectly safe after 12 months so don't worry about that.

He may have benefited from staying at home on Friday but no parent gets everything right and there's no way of knowing that if he had stayed home, the outcome would have been any different.

How is his temperature now and is he having plenty of fluids?

He has only 37,5 , I managed to bring down his fever this week. Yes he is drinking a lot thankfully we never had a problem with that.What worries me is his constant cough and still runny nose ( after more than a . I suspect his molars can be coming through as well ( because he doesn’t have them yet). Plus he is very nagging, whiny I guess it’s also the not sleeping part. It’s just so bad to watch your baby suffering and not knowing what to do (more).

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