Night-time cough bringing on vomiting - bit long sorry!!

[mamabear2b]

Hi,
am having a bit of a drawn out nightmare at the moment, wondered if anyone has had similar.
DS (7 months) started with a cold 6 weeks ago which went to his chest and was diagnoses as bronchitis as he had a slight temp, was wheezy and was coughing so hard it was making him vomint, was given amoxy for a week which seemed to work.

Day after the end of the antibiotics he got worse again vomiting both in the day and in the middle of the night due to strength of cough, was given a antrovent inhlaer which stopped the day cough a bit and made night cough less severe - no vomiting.

A week later he starts coughing agin despite using inhaler and was so bad 2 days ago he coughed up anything we gave him including 1/2 oz of water, took him to emergency doc who gave us more amonxy and told us to go see out doctor again today.

Amoxy seemed to be helping a bit, he's still coughing at night and being a little bit sick. Doctor today was NOT impressed he was given amoxy by emergency doctor and has now prescribed blue inhaler but said she didn't want to label him asthmatic.

Haven't got as clue what's going on! Both my husband and I have had colds, it is winter, and they say babies in their 1st year get all sorts so am I just being a bit over-worried about this lingering cough?

BIG Sorry for how long this is !!

Well I am a serve asthmatic. If anyone if coughing up blood then there is a problem.

Most likely your son has burst a blood vessle but given how hard he would need to cough that is a major concern. Particularly with how little he is.

You need to keep a really close eye on this. Does he sleep through the coughing at night? If so, try picking him up an sitting in the bathroom, with the door shut and the bath full of hot steamy water, this should help easy the cough.

anymore blood and go back to the GP if you feel you are being fob off. Go to A and E.

Hope that helps

Hope your LO gets better soon.

mamabear, this will not be much consolation to you at the moment, but my DS1 who is now 8 used to suffer dreadfully with lingering coughs when he was younger (he was particularly awful the winter he was 3) but he has largely grown out of the worst of it and didn't ever develop asthma.

Thanks SNS,

LO not coughing up blood thankfully but the cough is waking him up at leat three times a night at various times. Have tried the steam thing before bed and first thing in the morning but not during night so will try that.

Thanks

Dinosaur,

Good to know it's "one of those things", there's nothing worse than feeling like you should be doing something but not knowing what it is.

I'm sure I'd cope better if he was old enough to talk, it's the fact that he can't tell me that makes me feel so helpless. I suppose sleep deprivation doesn't help the rational mind either and I try to remember if I'm tired then he must be too which is horrible when you are feeling ill.

Like Dinosaur's DS1 my DD used to have awful coughs when tiny - everything went to her chest and I really did think we were verging towards asthma. However she, too, grew out of it. When she was particularly bad at night I used to keep an old kettle in her bedroom and boil that to moisten the air if necessary. That way she could sleep in moist air and it did seem to help. Hope your DS is feeling better soon.

You can get humidifiers with large tanks to plug in for overnight. We did this with dd when she was little and it did help. Her room got awfully misty so you have to make sure you air the room out well after.

Do try it.

I've sat with my God Children all night in a steam filled bathroom untill the emergency doctor could come in the morning. By which time the LO was feeling a lot better!

Strange question have you started weaning?

Persistant coughs at that age could (stess could) be linked with an allergy often to milk, or gluton.

The only other thing would be an allergen in the house, like a change in laudry powder, new pet.

Give the steam a go and you need to persist with your Dr. This has been going a rather long for me. Must be 100 times worse for you and your LO.

RSBK - How wierd have just been looking at humidifiers actually!

Stary - He has been trying solids but have only ever given him vegetables so far and he has been on formula for about 4 months since I started back at uni and couldn't exclusively b/f.

I know how infuriating the lovely LO's can be when it comes to doctor time, on Sat after vomiting for 3 hours he was all smiles and wriggles whilst we were explaning that he had been going red in the face, crying and screaming only 15 minutes before!!

just hang in there.

You maybe better off getting a hymidifier. Just leave it on all night.

Will help him I am sure.

Keep your chin up

Cheers Stary and co you've been a great help, off to argos!

My ds has recently been diagnosed with asthma, and my health visitor referred me to our town's asthma nurse. I had no idea this existed and it wasn't mentioned to me by GP or practice nurse (who wrote me a prescription and shooed me out). She came round was really helpful, has prescribed ds a brown inhaler (as well as his blue one), shown us how to use them, when etc. Felt much better afterwards. Why not ask if there is one in your area?

mamabear, we have a humidifier for dd2 (she's 11 months now) which we have left on all night every night for the past six weeks. She's not asthmatic - as far as I know - but has a floppy larynx, which means all throat/chest things affect her more than normal, and has had endless colds and coughs since her big sister went back to pre-school in September.

It makes a huge difference to her breathing - both nasal congestion and cough - so defo worth a try.

And I know just what you mean about the helplessness when they're too little to talk and tell you how they feel - hope your LO is all well soon.

Thanks Elibean,

Have seen some humidifiers in argos but going to do a bit of price shop in town tomorrow as they seem to be about 35-40 quid which is ok but if possible I could do with finding one a bit cheaper

How's everone doing today?

Hope you had a better night and that your LO is improving?

Thanks for the post spooKAY, luckily we tried have been trying the humidifier for the past 4 or 5 nights and it really seems to be making a difference, Good luck with LO and will bear the info in mind incase we need it at a later date

Hi Stary, as u can see from above LO is doing so much better and seems to be sleeping better too but I won't go on too much because I'm on duty tonight and he's bound to wake up!

Thanks to all for the support stopped turning me into a lunatic!

No idea if this is a helpful suggestion but has whooping cough been ruled out?