Last week he has had a bad cough (he is almost 23 months) If he has coughed anything up he has swallowed it again I havent seen him spit anything out dont think he would even know how to do that.
Sunday he tripped with a toy drumstick in his mouth and was gagging so we called 999 and they took him to A&E. Doctor had a look at him and said he was absolutely fine that the gagging was just a reflex and there was no damage done to him.
As week has progressed his cough has got worse. Normally if you ask him "Are you ok?" he says "yes!" Yesterday he was coughing a lot and I asked and he said "No" which actually freaked me out because its the first time I have ever asked him that and got that answer. I asked a few more times, each time he said no.
So I took him to GP last night. Didnt mention the drumstick though but GP gave him a thorough examination and said it was just a bad cold with mucus making him cough.
Forgot to mention earlier - for the last week his sleep has been REALLY bad. He is getting up in the middle of the night and being uncontrollable, jumping arond on his bed, our bed etc very hard to get him back to sleep. DH and I are shattered - this is also strange because he has slept through consistenly since he was 10 months.
Just now we were brushing our teeth and when he took his toothbrush out there was a significant amount of blood on it!!! And when he spat out there was some on his spit. I had a good look in his mouth and cant see any gums bleeding.
I should add - he seems happy and full of beans. In fact if anything yesterday he was much more hyper than usual as if he'd had lots of sugar and he didnt. He is playing, talking loads and laughing. Its just the cough, no sleep, and now some blood from his mouth.