Would you test for just a morning cough?

[Usernumber5253747293]

Ds 11 has woke up coughing for 2 mornings in a row, gets up and then doesn't cough all day!! He was prone to this when he was younger anyway but not so much in recent times.

He had covid a month or so ago and didn't even have a cough.

The funny thing is my kids have had so many coughs in the last 2 years, none were covid, pcrs negative. Then they actually caught covid and didn't even get a cough 🤯

Would you test? If your child was coughing a bit in the morning then fine all day. Otherwise fine. Not even coughing during the night or anything!

Though I just noticed he had covid a month or so ago. Probably not then in that case. Too unlikely! And quite likely to still test positive falsely on a PCR I think?

@irregularegular

Might as well do a lft at least. Wny not?

I intend to. It's finding the right time. He has asd and he finds testing traumatic. We had to practically hold him down last time 😪

For me, yes, it can be months between episodes, years even - at one stage I thought I'd grown out of my asthma, sadly not! If my lungs have been upset by a cold or chest infection, they can then sometime seem extra sensitive for a while and other things set them off, but sometimes I can go months on end without getting a cold and I get no asthma symptoms at all (and can even come off my preventer inhaler with no issues, even though you are not really mean to stop-start). Also, not every cold sets me off, and even when I am "having an asthma attack" it's not acute like you'd imagine, more a gradual post-cold dry cough that affects my breathing, but I never, ever wheeze, even when at times I cannot catch my breath enough to speak a full sentence (and frustratingly, I've only ever experienced that since my 30s 🤷🏻‍♀️). You may want to google 'atypical asthma' or 'cough-variant asthma'.