Humidifiers - any good for helping a persistant cough

[KazzaL]

DS1 who's now 15mths has had a persistant nighttime cough since January. he's been diagnosed with reflux (not a suprise as he is always puking) and the cough is apparantly caused by irritation in his airways caused by the acid.

Despite being on medication to inhibit his stomach acid production and ventolin syrup to relax his airways, the cough hasn't got any better and most nights it disturbs his sleep enough to wake him up and it usally takes about 1 1/2hrs to get him back to sleep. Which as DH & I both work fulltime isn't good and I'm also going through the early exhausted phase with PG2, so I'm having early nights already and can't cope with missing any sleep!

I wondered if anyone had any experience with these and might recommend that it may help - they start in the region of £50 so I'm loathe to spend that much money and find it doesn't work.

We borrowed one for DS1.

It did work - but the only downside is - his bedroom was absolutely wet through by the morning literally.

Since then, he has been diagonosed with asthma so having his brown and blue inhalers reduced the need to have the humidifier.

We bought one as DS1 gets croup but I don't think it made any difference apart from pulling the wallpaper off the walls. Doctors say put croupy children in a steamy bathroom and that doesn't help either. Is that worth a try before you part with your cash??

When he's got a cough we always keep his window open and prop him up with an extra pillow.

thanks both of you - i think i've been persuaded not to part with my cash!! He already has a wedge & blocks on his cot, so he's quite upright already (to help with the reflux) and we have tried putting a wet towel over the radiator each night even when it's not on, but it deosn't seem to have done much

guess we'll just have to hope he grows out of it and it goes away by itself