DIAGNOSED WITH CROUP and got SUCH DIFFICULTY BREATHING!!

[racheylee]

i've read loads about the ins and outs of croup! my 12 month old lil boy was diagnosed with it 8 days ago and he's still waking up every morning with real difficulty breathing he has a solbutomal inhaler which he screams the whole way through giving him and only seems to make him worse. does anybody know how long this could go on for its really quite scary.

back to GP PDQ

Go to the doctor to get him checked out again, if the inhaler isn't working, they may be able to try something else. My dd1 has asthma and is not good with inhalers, so has a syrup called Brycanil/terbutaline.

Have you tried a humidifier, they sell them in Argos for about £40 and we have ours brilliant when dd's have colds.

Good luck

i was at gp's yesterday sori forgot to mention that when i say diagnosed 8 days ago we been bak and 4th from hospital since then he's seen over 10 doctors all say different things

8 days is quite long actually, i would take him back to your gp

Croup is very scary, my ds had it when he was 18mths old, his breathing was so bad that NHS direct advised me to take him to A&E and they kept him in for a week

thanx for replys!! i'm going for humidifier today seen 1 in argos 25 pound for nursery 1 dont know whether 2 buy that 1 or they do other 1's for 60 pound might be worth paying the extra

everytime we go to the hospital he's given a dose ov steriods and his breathing rapidly improves therefore leaving a fit and healthy child they make it look as though it was pointless taking him in as soon as he's relased and no steriods his breathing deteriorates! his dads side of the family is riddled in asthma including his dad and they wont diagnose cus he's to young

Poor little thing, it must be awfully uncormfortable for him, i do hope he gets better soon.

Try sitting in your bathroom (you and little one on a chair - or the loo!!) with bath/shower running as hot as it can - close door and get your own home style sauna - this will really help him (well the steam will).

Another thing in the hospital i work - we quite often give parents a dose of steroid to take home and give 12 hours after the initial dose - this can quite often help if the second dose is wearing off and can sometimes be enough to clear it - rather than repeated random once off doses - if you see what i mean?!
Might be worth asking for from GP/a+e.

Also one more thing the salbutamol inhaler wont help the croup prob will only help if he's wheezing.
Good luck hope little one gets better soon!

thanx rodg82 ive done the bathroom thing the other day i even took the kettle up wit us (it broke in the end wont switch itself off n e more lol) he still had an awful nights sleep!! they've refused 2 send me home with steriods he was sent home with 2 days worth last tues weds and they worked wonders he's had about 10 doses in hospital but thats been his lot they dont like 2 give them 2 them. Ive got a humidifier now so i'm gonna give that a whirl c how it goes thanx

If you have, or can borrow, a steam stripper that works wonders too. Or lots of steaming kettle water. Good luck, its an awful thing to go through.

They should give you two tablets, about 12 hours apart IIRC and it should cure it, it shouldn't go on this long!

Also have they given him any inhalers?

Tink used to go through it monthly, she would be nebulised until they calmed her down, then steroids in a syringe. We'd be sent home with the second dose and ventolin with an aero-chamber.

It was only when she was put onto daily treatment (blue and brown inhalers and Montelukast) that she's not going in every month, just every 2 or 3 now!

Nothing to add really but I just wanted to give you moral support. WE HATE CROUP. We've had loads of episodes over the past 5 years but I've never heard of it going on for so long. I'd go back if I were you.

Good luck x