DD is 18mo and we generally think of her as very healthy. She rarely has stomach upsets, nor does she suffer majorly from viruses, and generally is quite a hardy baby, as her brother was too. When my friends talk about missing work with an ill baby again, or their babies having illnesses pretty much every other week, I just can't really comprehend what it's like as my DCs are not really ill that often. Most of the things she gets result in a runny nose and maybe the occasional day of needing some calpol, and she has only missed 2 days with illness at nursery since she started going 6 months ago. She has never needed any prescription drugs from the doctors for illnesses. As I say, she's pretty hardy and we feel very fortunate about this.
However, since we can remember - so definitely over the winter and maybe before then even (we're not really sure) - she has often had quite a bad night cough, and she is often fairly chesty, quite rattly breathing. She has had this permanently for at least the last month and talking about it we do think she has had it most of the winter if not before as well. This appears to cause her no problems at all - she is fine, goes to nursery, doesn't suffer too badly with illnesses, can run around and do all the things a boisterous 18 month old does, plus she seems to sleep through the night cough pretty much every night - we may be up with her once a month or something. But it just feels wrong. I'm a bit worried she may have a tendency towards asthma.
So my question is: should we be worried about this and go to the doctors now? should we wait and see if spring clears it up and then rethink? should we not bother at all and assume she just has some sort of low-level virus that will just sort itself out?
If she was in any way ill with this, I wouldn't hesitate to take her to the doctors, but she really seems unbothered by it.
What do you think?