Bit worried about ds - Not sure if i need him seing tonight or if it can wait til morning

[TheOriginalNutcracker]

Had a thread on here about a week or so ago, about his persistent cough, which was making him vomit, and making him choke as there was so much phlegm.

There was some discussion that he might have had whooping cough, but as they generally don't provide any treatment I didn't take him to the gp, as it also seemed to then get a bit better.

Anyway, he is now struggling again with it, especially tonight. He is coughing up so much phlegm that he is choking until he is sick. He really panicked tonight and was banging the side of the sick bowl becuas he couldn't get a breath out. He then vomitted and breatihng retuned to normal, although sounds chesty.

He has just now done it again, but not as severely. The phlegm had blood in it tonight though as he was retching so hard.

I am unsure of what to do. I can put him in bed with me tonight, so i will be right there if he becomes unwell again, but I just really wasn't sure if I should be getting him seen right now ??

He is fast asleep again at the moment and it between coughing fits he is absolutly fine.

Do you have an out-of-hours Gp service who can visit?

Nope, they haven't done visits round here since I was little.

I could take him to the badger thingy i think, but i'd have to find someone to come and sit with the dd's.

Will go google out of hours.

How old is he? I would call the ooh doc tbh.

NHS direct can contact them on your behalf if he needs seeing.

Or whatever version of NHS24 you have in your area, can you give them a call? Usually takes a couple of hours for a call-back.

Thank's he is 9.

Walk in centre is shut. Just checking the badger clinic

Sory for not coming back to this last night.

I rang nhs direct and they were pretty shite tbh. Anyway they said he was ok to leave until today unless he had anymore breathing problems.

Just managed to get the last appointment at our surgery for this morning at 10:40 so we shall see what that brings.

It is suspected whooping cough. The dr took a swab and has prescribed ab's but she said that there is really much that they can do, and he has about 3/4 weeks of coughing left.

She said that whooping cough cases tend to peak every 11 years and this is the peak year.

So sorry to hear it was in fact whooping cough :( My little one got it as a baby and its so scary to hear them stop breathing before they take that breath isn't it? :( It does last an unbelievably long time too. It really affects sleep, life, everything! It is such a horrid illness that I don't think people who haven't seen someone suffer realise how bad it is.

(Off to get baby 2 jabbed this afternoon..)

It is very scary yes and more so in a baby, that must have been awful for you. I had it as a 1yr old and my mum said it was horrendous.

He was vacinated as a baby/toddler but the gp said it isn't 100% effective so he is just unlucky. The health protection agency have just rung me to ask a few questions about siblings and where he goes to school etc.

Yes I was told it wasn't 100 per cent too but my husband luckily didn't get it. I hadn't been done as a child as apparently there was a public scare then but mum hadn't ever mentioned that to me!

The public health person gets involved as it is a notifiable disease. I wonder if it goes undiagnosed a lot though. I felt really bad having to contact other mums i'd come in contact with but the doctor had initially said to keep going out!

Not very mumsnety of me but thinking of you and your son. It's really rough :-(