bloody cough, dd 6, just got overone that lasted 4 weeks, now has another. Wil prob be off school AGAIN, i get so tense about her having time off.

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She got the last couhg about 24 hr after a plane journey. It' slingered on, but i realsied 2 days ago, 'ooh, her coughs gone' NO a new one started yesterday, dry as you like. The type I get, gives you a headaches, and you canot relax or get decent sleep.

She had cough between 1-3 yrs at night. Did the inhaler ting, didn't seem to make any difference. That turned to bouts every now and again that turned croupy. Havehad to do the steroid thing a few t imes.

Now we face another day at home, and i think school might be abit , or that may just be my guilt reaction kicking in.

Have given paracetamol, cough mixture (for thehell of it--desp measures) and found her blue inhaler. Maybe i should go back to giving her the brown preventer, will need new script tho.

por thing, she is knackered, and i am losing my marble, not being able to do anything.

please remind me that this cough will go and all that

If she has asthma, why aren't you using the brown inhaler? Suggest you go back and see the GP and sort out what you should be using in which circumstances. Tell the GP that she's missing school, obviously.

In the meantime, have you tried boiling a kettle in her room?

yep I agree to the brown inhaler, we havent had to use one since she was about 3 1/2, and the croupy times, well gp never mentioned it, as i think i and he felt she had grown out of that. Thats what i meant, i am thinking the asthma thing has reared it's head again. Its hard to tell sometimes, with all the bugs. Plus she has been really well all year, no couhgs at all.

the coughing has stopped for about ten mins now. When she relaxes into sleep it goes. God i think i am stressed out on her behalf.

Tixylix night-time cough syrup has saved my sanity many, many times. Hope you all have a good night.

has it? i get so confused, as one gp said don't even bother with cough meds.

is the night time one a bit like giving them a sleeping pill then

coughing has started again.

My dd just had a cough which responded to 4mg ventolin over a week (no previous asthma diagnosis) and never came back after stopping the tablets.

I realise you have much more asthma treatment experience than me so sorry for grandmas, egg-sucking and so on.

But my dd's seems to have been a habit cough that was a bit asthma-ish but was completely nailed by the tabs which broke the habit. (not a psychological habit, I mean a bodily habit, like hiccoughs).

just did s search, and oen came up for a few weeks back and sounds like dd's.

more coughing

the 4 mg, you were syaing about, i guess this was in a medicene form? I haven't been offered anythign like that in my gp's.

Yes it was a strip of tablets. I don't live in the UK so they may have different prescribing practices.

ah i thought maybe you weren't in uk. I need to go and get the ventolin tomorrow.

Have to get past receptionist, do a sob story, see if she can get me a script etc...

Coughing at night is a symptom of asthma so I'm glad you are chasing up the prescription.

yes have been ans got the brown inhalers. I was most pissed off becuase when i went to look for it, dd announced that a playmate of hers had emptied it, by spraying it into socks. They wre at the back of the drawer, and i hadn't had to even thik 'inhalers' for a bout a yr and a hlaf.

anyhow gp said dd's cold/virus is exaccerbating her asthmas tendencies, or vice versa, and we shoudl see how it goes. If not it will have to be another steroid in tablet form.

thisis what annoys me, becuase last yr we had a bad bout of night and day coughing ,like this only worse at night, and the last gp just gave me the sterid, and didn't even question me over the history of coughing when she was younger.

peak flow is well below, but gp siad it may just be bcuase of cold virus and nothing else.

i cannot bear to hear anymore of her coughing. she can't get to sleep, she's cough cough cough, cry out, cough cough cough etc...

anyon else listening helplessly to coughing, and wanting to run down the street screaming in frustration.

(((piratecat))) does she wake up with it?

Both my dds are coughing at night atm, and dd1 definitely has a degree of asthma when she has a bad cold (she has) so we're back on preventer as of today. Like you, it had been over a year since she wheezed or coughed, so I'd pretty much forgotten about it

Will think of you when up tonight with either of them!

thanks Elibean. We are shattered. How was your night?

oh meant to answer your Q. The cough she had for 4 weeks, no she didn't wake up. This new cough however, is insisting she doesn't actaully get to sleep, that goes for me too.

this morning she has a fever, headache, and sore tummy from all the coughing.

i am in a bad mood, and we have no bread, wel we do but there's mould happening on the edges.