Hi,
I'm writing this now as my poor daughter is coughing up a lung. I also have health anxiety but I'm convinced there is something else going on here. She was 5 weeks premature.
Whenever she gets a cold.. which is all the time considering she's at preschool. She gets a horrendous cough for 10 plus days straight. The poor thing can't sleep.. I can't sleep it's bloody awful.
On 12th April she had a chickenpox vaccine.. a week later she developed croup and ended up in A&E. Doctors don't think it was related. But I don't know. She had a dose of steroids and the cough began to dwindle.. around 26th April. I'm also giving her hay fever meds.
Fast forward to now and she's been getting a cough that's progressed since 5th May. The poor girl hasn't had a restful night sleep in ages! Neither have I to be fair.
For the past 3 days it's been awful. Coughing every 5 mins. She went one night where it was every couple of hours and I thought.. ok we're coming out of this.. but tonight were back to every 5 mins again.
Doctors check her vitals and oxygen and airways are always clear!! What the hell is going on. They have prescribed a brown inhaler now as well.. which I gave up with before because I thought it was actually making it worse but I've been told to preserve.
On day 3 of 1 puff in the morning and evening for that now.
I just don't understand at all. Surely this isn't normal. Coughing so much when she has a cold or whatever. Doctors don't want to investigate further as her vitals are always ok!
Im at my wit's end and feel so helpless not being able to help her.
Ive tried everything Humidity, snot suckers, saline solutions, inhalers, propped her pillows up, medicines.
None of my friends have this issue with the coughing with their children which actually annoys me. Im just so tired of it. I'm also very scared.