its bloody croup AGAIN arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[PirateoftheScarybeing]

Took dd5 to gp, after a pretty horrible night, both got hardly any sleep. Have been prescribed 4 of those predisonal tabs, steroids. have given them to her,

Did the steamy bathroom thing about 4 in the morning, just to get her to calm down, as she wasn't able to breathe.

She was very brave, but it's so frightening.

They are back to school 2morro, our half term was last week, but gp said no way that she can go, as she could spread it, as its a virus.

Have you ever tried putting a humidifier in her bedroom for the night?

Works really well for us.....(just relieves the symptoms but at least eases breathing throughout the nigh and no more middle of the night rush to bathroom)

i was looking at the humidifiers, but what type, where from and how's the money going to appear lol!!

what sort have u got?

Deffo get one. Our is from Argos. Its fabolla.

this one

so do you only use it for croup?

oh best of luck with this - it sounds like you are experienced with it at least.

DD1 had it last week, and I bought the cheapest humidifier I could find (£25) - didn't really get a chance to find out whether it worked or not, as her chest got infected, and she had a major asthma attack and went into hospital for 4 days. Not much fun.

But the humidifiers are meant to be good. If you dont get ne before tonight, try putting wet towels on the radiator in her room.

was going to say argos.
Use at first signs of a cold. find it dramatically reduces lenght and severity of symptoms.
(great for my sinusitis too - add a drop of olbas oil)

No I use it when ds or dd has a cough. Ds has asthma so has coughs more than most.
He's worse in march with the tree pollen and also when the temp changes.

(the £25 one was in John Lewis - looks very like the argos one)

ok, will def check them out in time for next episode. I can't aford one at the moment.

sorry to hear about your dc dadgonemad , our home IS warm upstairs as the boiler/tank cupboard is in my room, which dd has been sleeping in. But we havent had the heating on for 3 days now, its been so mild here in sunny Devon .

I will put a saucepan of water in there tho tonight. When dd does sleep in her bedroom, I never have the radiator on in there as it gets too warm.

I think she caught it off her friend, when we all went to a playplace on thurs, or off one of the many children there.

so dd is asleep, not sure the steroid tabs made any difference. cough still here, but not quite as barky as last night.

have just had to comfort her as she was having a night terror, and pushing me away and screaming, but then she her hair is soaked, as she is prob sweating this out.
poor thing.

Any improvement today pirate?

DD1 is finally getting back to her normal self here. It toook a while but she is getting there!

hello adadgonemad, well i am pleased your little one is on the mend.

Does yours have inhalers regularly too? My dd was put on them yrs ago, but seems to have outgrown the asthma.

She is off school today, still coughing, but the bark has subsided. Maybe the steroids hepled that bit, I am not sure. its an irritating dry cough now, and I am keping her in today, doing the bare minimum, ie quiet play.

She is most peed off that she may miss the haloween party 2morro night. I have siad that if she is a bit better we canpop there for an hour or so. Yet its a case of if i don't send her to school tomorrow its not really teaching her a good lesson to let her attend a party. Albeit not a school organised one tho.

croup, has turned to post croup cough coughing fits.
omg, is there no end to it. have now resorted to inhalers. she is back in bed, had temp this morning, burning up.

bloody virus crap. she's so miserable and i can't help her.
arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh