I don't even know where to begin with this but I feel close to have some sort of nervous breakdown.
DD (turned 1 last week) has had a cough for over 3 months. It's the loudest, barking cough I've ever heard. Her chest has been checked multiple times, we are told it's clear & it's an upper respiratory issue. Either reflux, or a floppy larynx or viral, & it should correct itself. Well we had Ranitidine for the reflux, did nothing. She's been on antibiotics as she also started nursery & picked up every delight from there too. Last week the coughing sounded more croup like than usual so we were given 2 sets of steroids. She has a humidifier in her room, the cot head is tilted. She coughs an awful lot first thing but then throughout the day I would say she has an episode of coughing every hour. No recent cold so not thinking it's post nasal drip. The minute she dozes off in her pram, the cough returns. We have been given both blue & brown inhalers which I assume we need to use for a few weeks to see if they may work.
I'm starting to worry this is something serious. On the plus side she's eating, usually happy, etc etc. I definitely struggle with health anxiety & when she was born she suffered a stroke & we were in NNU/ICU for 2 weeks at one point not knowing what was wrong with her or if we were going to bring her home, And when we did get her home I was then terrified for months of her having seizures as she did in ICU. I just don't really feel parenting has been 'enjoyable' (although she IS enjoyable, an utter delight, bias I know) & I love her to pieces & around her I'm a laugh a minute as I would never want her to pick up on my anxiety. But despite this I do get so upset to hear her barking cough, worrying myself silly as to what it could be, etc.
Anyway sorry for the ridiculously long post. Just putting it out there to see if anyone has had experience of a cough of this sort...