Advice needed - DD (11 months) has had permanent cold since October

[fanjolina]

Just looking for some advice/opinions/experience etc.

DD has had a permanent cold since October. By this, I mean snotty, bunged up (need to use Vicks on her every night). It hasn't abated at all, thought some periods are definitely worse than others.

I have raised it with my HV, who first blamed me for putting her in nursery so young (she was 6 months) and exposing her to so many germs . However it started 2 months before she even went to nursery.

The HV mentioned that it could be allergies. I asked how to get this investigated and was simply told "you can't - she's too young".

So to date we have just left it. But I am worried I should be doing more. My other children got colds when they were little but never for this aount of time. And I just feel so sorry for the poor we thing, as I feel crap when I am bunged up and full of cold and she has spent more than half her life like that!

Do you think I should be doing more to address this? Do you think the GP could help?

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Fanjo
You can buy piriton syrup over the counter for toddlers 1+ I think. It cant do any harm if you follow the directions and if it stops her symptoms youve diagnosed the problem - allergy. Then you need to find out what shes allergic to

Maybe you could see a GP who could check her sinuses and also maybe run a blood test?

Thanks for your replies.

Beammeupscotty - I will try her with the Piriton.
And winnybella, I am thinking now that I should take her to the GP. It seems silly to take her for a cold. But is has just been so damn long.
Poor wee baby

Poor Baby!

littlemad seemed to do this at about the same age and it was to do with starting Nursery and being exposed to so many new viruses.

at your HV giving you the guilts though. I'd go to a GP for actual health advice ever since my previous (very nice and supportive) HV seemed surprised to learn that children should be stapped in car seats all the time when the car is moving and shouldn't be b/f as you go along

Your HV sounds awful.

I'd take her to a GP. Mine seemed permanently sick after she started daycare, but she wasn't actually permanently sick. So I think it's definitely worth investigating.

Politely jump over the health visitor and go to the doc,this is a health concern.
Tell them what you have excluded. (eggs etc =food allergies,no pets,no abnormal amounts of dust in the home etc etc)
Does your baby run a temp? Are they eating/putting through ok?
You could always push the pediatric consult button. just mentioning this ,motivates the gp no end.
Somethings you do need to suffer through,but you have experience and you need to share your concerns to work out how to manage your daughter.

at your HV madascheeses!!

I will book her into the GP. Stuff the HV!!

One thing you mentioned girlscout has got me thinking. I wonder if it could be our cats that are causing this reaction (mild runny nose, chesty wheezing). Now I think about it, when it started coincided with around the time they came back to living indoors, having spent most of the summer outside hunting.

Sounds possible, you can certainly mention it to the doc, but I would go anyway, just to confirm cause (if possible)