Hi all,
Ds (2) was seen by nurse on Friday and given antibiotic drops for conjunctivitis.
Over the weekend he developed a barking cough, fever and Monday early morning projectile vomited while coughing then again when waking. Also been off his food for the past few days. He hasn’t had the fever since Sunday night.
Took him back yesterday to the GP who said it was croup and prescribed him steroids. He had them around midday (dexamethasone).
He seemed to improve and ate his dinner, started drinking again. However during the night the barking cough returned and he’s projectile vomited upon waking.
Should the steroids have worked by now (? I’m not sure if he needs to see the GP this morning for more steroids. He doesn’t have strider and no sucking under ribs or in between ribs otherwise I’d take him straight to A&E.
He has needed oxygen and nebuliser twice (once at 10 months for bronchiolitis and he was also admitted in October for a chest infection). However both of these times he’s been sucking in under his ribs.
He did have a chest infection last summer which was only detected when I had taken him to A&E with a non blanching rash and they did a chest xray after his blood test showed raised infection markers. He only had a very slight cough at the time.
He's playing happily but his barking cough sounds horrible.
Any advice greatly appreciated.