My 6 year old daughter has suffered from a persistent cough for over four months now and I'm really struggling to get my head around it.
To clarify, the cough is persistent in that it feels like a lifetime of having to endure restless nights and a stressed child, but made even more annoying in that for a couple of weeks in-between bouts, it fades away to nothing.
Back in December both myself and little one got the really bad flu-like thing that was going around, which is as far back as I can really accredit to what may have started this cough, or perhaps just exaggerated it. Aside from usual colds and other grotty stuff since then, with no seeming correlation to anything, the cough keeps coming back. It's back again as of last night - no temperature, no cold/sniffles, no sore throat/tonsils.
We've tried inhalers, humidifiers, various medicines, antihistamines, cleaned her room religiously... but nothing seems to help. I've taken her to the doctors to try get to the bottom of it and all I'm told is "it's a viral cough" and I'm sent away. I don't want to doubt what they say but even after this long can that be the case? Even the NHS website says if a cough persists for X amount of weeks to get in touch with your GP, but I feel like I'm hitting a brick wall there.
Even if the issue isn't "fixable" until it runs it's (very long) course, hearing from others in similar positions may bring some comfort. We are both finding the situation really frustrating and it's all I think about.