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URGENT: Please advise if you can Sudden incessant coughing out - DS stressing

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chocolatemonkey · 13/03/2011 02:28

(Sorry long detailed message)

URGENT: Please advise if you can

My Son just turned 4 last month always get coughs ans cold going to pre-school. It seems like he has a cold every 2 weeks. He had a cold about 3 weeks ago, a anormal one, took about two weeks to fully go.

Now: On Thursday his nose started losing copius amounts of stuff, a little green but sneezing a lot and losing a lot every time. He was fine in himself. On Friday the same, this time a little off his usual self wanting lots of cuddles but a bit lethargic and took himself off to bed twice.

On Friday night he started coughting, the incessant tickly cough at bed time. This has happened before so I normall give im warm milk and either honey or glycerin mixed in and it normally helps to get him off to sleep and then he gets a fairly good night sleep.

Saturday: He was ok, bright and breezy to stary, less stuff coming from his nose but less energetic but stil in ok sprits. A bit more huggy than normal (which is lots) but along with that he fell asleep in my arms at 11 am (not since he was a toddler) and I popped him in bed where he slept for 2 hours. He was fairly low key the rest of the day but with an incessant cough that just seems to be coughing out without a break to breath in and he's getting stress and I'm getting worried as the coughs come maybe 30/40 at a time, all pushing air out with no rest in-between to breath. He seems like he goes slightly stiff or a little floppy just trying to get a breath in but he can't stop coughing. I have given him Tixylix every 4 hours which has very little effect.

I am now here at 2.20am and I can't sleep because I'm scared he's not getting enough oxygen. He has a small break of maybe a minute and then it starts again. His breathing is not clear but I don't know if this is because of the mucas from his runny nose, it sounds a little raspy to me but with all that coughing I'm not suprised.

What can I do/ what shoud I do?

I'm so sorry if this seems a strange question but my Dr is closed we don't have a car and I don't want to seem like a crazy woman by over reacting. It took 7 years to make him and that maybe makes me a little over-concerned.

Any advise would be much appreciated.

Please forgive the spelling, I'm so tired I can hardly see straight.

OP posts:
CheeseandGherkins · 13/03/2011 02:34

How is he now? Are his lips blue at all or finger nails ? That's one sign of lack of oxygen. Might be asthma, experience of that myself with me and dc. If you're worried go to a&e, coughing lots isn't good for oxygen. May need steroids, my 4 year old just had 5 days worth and made such a difference after him being up half the night coughing. Hope you're ok

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 13/03/2011 06:00

I'd take him to a and e without the slightest hesitation.

jenniferturkington · 13/03/2011 06:23

This happened to us last weekend, my ds is 3.8 and dduring the day on Saturday he couldn't stop coughing. NHS direct arranged an out of hours doctor appointment immediately(up at A&E in this area at the weekend). He was given antibiotics for a suspected chest infection and a ventolin inhaler. Sadly I'm pretty certain it was asthma as he was much improved within hours Sad

jenniferturkington · 13/03/2011 06:25

Sorry- didn't actually advise! In the middle of the night go to A&E, during the day 'out of hours'. Hope he is feeling better this morning.

mspotatochip · 13/03/2011 20:05

We get this with DD , get him seen no-one will criticise you, hope he feels better soon

Galena · 13/03/2011 20:12

How is he now, OP?

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