My 3 year old has always been extremely prone to getting bags coughs. We’ve lost a hell of a lot of sleep with it over the years. When I say she coughs all night, it is literally for hours & hours. How she is not sick, I’ve no idea! It’s usually triggered by a cold but then carries on for another couple weeks.. as a baby we had a few rounds of steroids which were brilliant, calmed it all right down significantly, but docs have since been very reluctant to give her anything to help..
This is the first year she’s been able to fully explain how it feels. She had a cold 4/5weeks ago & had a negative covid test at the time. She finds the tests traumatising (we have to pin her hands, legs & head 😣) & so we have also done a 10 day period of isolation when her cough seemed to get worse after a couple weeks instead of testing. We tested ourselves & younger daughter during this time & all negative. 5 weeks later, she is still hacking away. She tells us it’s really sore & hurts to breathe in ☹️ She’s awake 3/4 hours a night coughing & is pale and exhausted a lot of the time. Our GP is saying we need to test her before they’ll see her.. I do understand the ‘risk’ but it’s been 5 weeks, we had a negative test at the start & we’ve isolated to rule out any further spread.. I just don’t feel like it’s reasonable to have to physically restrain my frightened 3 year old in order to get medically checked out. I know people will say not to be daft, it’s only a swab, it won’t kill her, she’ll get over it etc but for some reason, she is that scared. I don’t know why. She’s 3. And yes, I can do one. But it involves something that makes her hysterically upset & something she asks me every morning if I’m going to do another one 😢😢😢
Do I just hope it runs it’s course? I guess maybe that’s the only option I have?