5yo always congested at night and first thing in the morning

[coffeepleeease]

DD (5) has always been a very snuffly child even when not ill with a cold, suspected hay fever although usually only in the summer. The past 3 nights she's had a really blocked nose at night, brings up all the mucus in the morning when she wakes up (sorry TMI!), then nothing all day. Only at night! Every night when I'm sat up with her because she can't breathe I'm expecting a full blown cold to develop, then it doesn't. What could it be? We have an air purifier on in the room every night and she has Piriton before bed.

sounds like a dust/dust mite allergy

what kind of bedding has she?
carpet in the room?
stuffed toys?

oh, and is there mould in the house?
that's a very common allergy as well.

My 2 year old had this 14 years ago. He had failure to thrive at the same time which thr hospital thought was gut related. However, I realised he couldn't speak, he couldn't keep food down and he had exactly as you described. Then he had sleep apnoea. So I took him to thr GP and told him I though his dramatic weight loss (91st centile at birth to 25th) was ENT related. GP looked in his mouth and saw that his tonsile were covering 75% of his through (grade 3).

5 days later he was having then out, adenoids out (were covering pretty much all the space between nose and throat) and grommets in (was pretty much deaf).

Worth checking?

Im exactly the same and its rhinitis.

A nose spray helps massively.

Sounds like allergies to me. Dd is very much the same and it's been worse than ever recently. Winter allergies can be caused be a few things. A big trigger one is dust mites. Even after I blitzed her room she still suffers. Pharmacist told me that even just the smallest amounts of dust can trigger it and also a lot of children are the same and often outgrown by 11! Dd is 6 🤦‍♀️