12mo DS had his first attack of croup in the early hours of Sunday, we had to go in an ambulance 😥 he got rapidly better with the steroids though and sent home. The barking noise hasn't returned and he's not been worryingly ill enough to go back to A&E.
It's the early hours of Tuesday now and he's in bed with me coughing a lot and his temp is coming up again. The day we got home from hospital (Sunday) he was in a remarkably good mood all day and his fever was gone, cough wasn't too bad. Sunday night he was coughing up thick green phlegm and was coughing more overall than when he had the croup noise although it had turned into more of a wet cough. Monday he had fever in the morning, fine all afternoon then fever in the evening. Fine at bedtime but fever coming up again now. He's done lots of wet coughing tonight and sleeping horribly although the thick phlegm has stopped coming up.
Is this a normal progression of the illness? I was told at the hospital which symptoms should bring us back to A&E, but I wasn't told what to expect in terms of general recovery. I'm desperate for him to be well again because he's been ill non-stop for two weeks with HFM, then 12 month jab side effects, then a vomiting bug and now this, and he's meant to start nursery settling sessions on Wednesday!