yes the dreaded dry hacking cough is back, anyone elses dc's suffering

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my dd periodiaclly suffers this cough. She has inhalers, for asthma, but only as she used to have a night time cough from ages 2-3.5 ish.

They never help tho, then or now. She only just got over a cough/cold and fever last week, now this awful one has arrived as of yesterday.

I thought we'd be clear for half term. I bloody hate it, and am loathe to traipse to the gp 2morro. She;s had predisinol in the past but out of the 3 occasions she had this med, it only helped once.

poor poor thing, it will not stop and give her any rest.

plea for support, before i leave the house and the coughing!!

Yep, same here, DH too. GP says it is a virus but it's about the 4th time we have taken her in the last 18th months. She has an inhaler though they haven't diagnosed asthma.

DH is hacking away too.

it's just non stop isn't it.

i am slowly, losing it here patiencewise combined with feeling totally helpless. You gogle and it could be all manner of things. I just get to down, cos my dd seemed to fall prey to every bloodu bug that's going.

I make her go to school when she's feeling a bit off colour so i can save her 'day's off for when i KNOW she'll be really bad. Then this just makes it worse as just as she's getting over one thing, she gets the next thing.

No advice I'm afraid, but sympathies, my DD is the same (age 3) Can't get through a cold without the dry cough all day and all night for at least 3 days, night cough for longer (so no sleep for us). She saw a paed last year and is on asthma inhalers and montelukast which I can't work out if they are working or not. Just had a bad run of it last few weeks and for the first time in over a year we have had to resort to pred (2 x courses) and antibiotics after 2 nasty viruses in a row. I am 32 weeks pregnant and can't cope - the feeling of dread I get whenever she starts sneezing, so with you on the helpless feeling and googling cough!! I kept her off last week to clear everything (guess it is not so easy to do that once they're at school), back to preschool tomorrow so I'm sure it won't be long before it all kicks off again . If you find any miracle cures/insight as to what it is please let me know!

DS coughing in his sleep as I read this thread. We too have lots of medicines - he takes medicine 7 times a day and although he hasn't had a chest infection since January, we just can't shake the cough. Roll on summer!

wellie

i promise i will let you know. you must be shattered. She is sleeping atm, hasn't coughed for about 10 mis. i gave her about 5 pumps of salbutamol earlier. Using the spacer thingy, so nurse at local gp's said it's ok to do becuase it gets weakened by mixing with the air first iyswim.

I dunno, might see how she is tomorrow, as regards the predisinol. Do you find it ever helps?

Strawberry, what meds is your little boy on? has he always been prone to coughs and colds like my dd? Oh my dd is 7 also.

i have it, dd1 has it too, dd2 had it for yonks before christmas. i was speaking to a paed pal, saying that i presumed it had been a bronchitis-y thing and he said that it could be something called 'walking cough something-or-other' and while it should clear up in 7-8 weeks it will be gone in 3 days if treated with an antibiotic called something like azromycin (frustratingly i have forgotten the exact details, it was definitely not erithromycin).

so i'm seriously considering going to the docs as poor dd1 is peeing the bed at night, the cough is so strong.

god aitch, you too. it's such a violent relentless one isn't it.

dd slept woke at 2 with the cough, for about an hour. Then slept thru till 9 this morning which is unheard of.

how is everyone doing today.

i was at a party yesterday and people were jumping when i coughed.

Not sure if the prednisolone helps tbh...the cough has taken a few days to start getting better both times and I thought it was meant to work almost instantly. I don't usually find blue inhaler does anything either, apart from now it helps with the lingering cough which comes back every time she runs around.

I am hoping she grows out of it - not good news that it is still going on with yours age 7 . I wish it was just a one off 7-8 week thing, but it went on all last winter too so can't be.

My DH always gets loads of cattarh (sp?) and a cough that goes on and on with a cold. Maybe it's hereditary and just one of those things some people are more prone to?

Hope everyone gets better very soon!

aitch. my dd scared a bloke witless in the supermarket yesterday with her hacking. I got afew 'looks' as if to say, 'why is this lurgy child out in public'

well, we have to eat i'm afraid,and i've noone to sit with her.

wellie, yes the predisinol, it's hard to tell isn't it. dd is a little better today. Have just blasted her with the brown inhaler (why not). She is very weak today, but figners x'd for a slightly more restful night.