Children With Croup

[shaymarie]

Hi every one this is my 1st post and i thought i thought the 1st one should relate to my organisation Children With Croup i was wondering how many of your children have expirenced croup And what sort of things did you try to help ease croup x

Yup. Inhalers (croup went on until DS was 2 and we were raced in and out of A&E in ambulance as he went blue in face with it at times). Steamy showers. Wet flannel on hot radiator. Lots of sleepless nights and cuddling little one.
PS. He has asthma now and still has little races to inhalers and A&E.

DS started at 16 months, and still regularly gets it, and he's almost 9. He has a lovely Dr. that ensures that I always have at least 2 doses of steroids on hand in case of emergency (although we haven't had to go to the hospital in the past 3 years, he probably has about 5 bouts of croup per year, and about 3 of those are bad enough we need steroids to keep him out of the hospital), and periodically personally checks in over the phone with me. I found that going outside in the cold air helps far more than steam with him. I also found that turmeric (given in a large spoonful of honey) actually helps. It isn't a miracle, but it definitely helps some, and I wish I had found out about it sooner. Nothing else really helps with him.

Ds (2.5) had 7 croup attacks, 4 of which have landed him in a and e needed steroids.

The bigger issue for him is the fact he has pretty severe asthma and a croup attack plays havoc with his chest. 3 times we have ended up back in hopsital within a week with a big asthma attack.

Thanks every one who has posted on her will do my best to make shore I send every one a privet message and all do comment on here I'm the founder of Children With Croup hopefully in time we will be a non profit organisation but while we are working towards that were spreading and raising awareness researching and being a on and offline support network In as many ways as possible
We are on facebook are page and group the links are below and would love it of you would like and join them we also have a twitter account you can follow us @KidsWithcroup

www.facebook.com/pages/Children-With-Croup/326177894075474

And group
www.facebook.com/groups/362311023834473
when my eldest 1st had croup I felt quite alone and didn't really no much about it and although I got more and more used to him having it all the time still found it difficult as I had no one to talk to as none of my friends children have had croup when both my children had it at the same time I thought in shore other ppl are feeling like this to and this is we're we today and I hope you find us useful x thanks CWC x

mmebucket how much turmeric?

steam definitely helps for us, inhalers don't
had one trip to hospital where steroids were given

(DC 2.5)

will have a look at f/b page, thanks

Interesting thread. My DS has had croup 3 times - he's 16 months. The last time he needed to go to A&E and had two doses of steroids over 2 days (plus calpol etc). My DH is asthmatic. Is there any correlation?

That would be gr8 if you could look at our page thanks

I'm afraid I'm not really that scientific about it, tomatoface. I try to give him as much as I can get down him without a fight, since it does have such a strong taste to it. It has been easier to do now that he's older, and understands why I'm giving it to him. If I had to guess, I'd say closer to 1/2 teaspoon when he was littler, and I'm probably closer to a teaspoon now. I tried about a teaspoon on myself when I'm sick, and, as I said, it isn't like it is a miracle, but it does seem to help and does have anti-inflammatory properties.

Mme bucket we are adding a new page to are website for things parents give or do for there children when to ease croup can you post on are FB page or group or on here if you don't mind us using it to share with are member
Why u use tumric (sorry for the spelling )
What it does etc how much and anything eles you can think of in regards to it it would be grate thanks