is this really croup?

[Roskva]

I took dd to the gp yesterday because she had a temp and appeared to have a sore throat. Gp diagdnosed croup on the basis of one throaty coughing fit. Today her temp is normal, but she has no voice, like laringitis (sp?) but she's couging more, still very throaty, and her breathing is noisy, but her chest isn't wheezy. She's wanting to eat, but if she eats and has a coughing fit, she's sick . What can I do to help her?

Has she had the whooping cough vaccination?
How old is she?

croup does have a funny sound to its cough like a dog barking, so doc could have hear it, I know someone whos dd used to get croup all the time but no wheeziness (sp)

Croup is like a bark, however, it normally happens at night (normally). It's best treated with steroids if it's bad.

She's 2.5 years. She had croup when she was 10 months old and we spent a night in hospital - the sound of the cough was different to the way she is coughing now. Obviously she wasn't speaking then, but I don't remember her being 'croaky' ifkwim. She wasn't worse during the night last night than she was during the day, just when she has a coughing fit it wakes her (and me). Anyway, I gave her some tixylix about an hour ago, and that has helped.

She's had all the usual vaccinations - whooping cough is amongst the first vacs babies have, isn't it? I'm too tired to really think straight atm.

The last couple of times she's eaten/drunk she's coughed and thrown up, so now she doesn't want to drink. I'm beginning to get worried about that. She hasn't drunk anything since about 1pm.

roskva
do you have any ice lollies in the house. If she won't drink she might still have a lolly.
Whooping cough is one of the set of three DTP's at two three and four months

or ice cubes/crushed ice to sip or suck

Croup doesn't affect the chest, it is basically laringistis in a child. Because their larynx is so narrow when they have an infection it restricts the airway.

No, I don't have ice lollies. She's just drunk half a small carton of strawberry flavour soya milk, and the way she's pinging round the kitchen right now, I'm guessing she's not dehydrated. She was just very slow to wake up after her mega nap.