Needed - Solution to DD's cough

[chirpygirl]

DD is 14 months and has a streaming cold. I can cope with that with calpol but it has caused a chesty cough for the past 2 days. She is only coughing when she is lying down asleep and it is waking her up everytime...so...what I need is something to stop her coughing so she can stay asleep that is
cheap and probably in my house already!

I can't raise the end of her cot as she flips over in the night repeatedly.

help!?

Baby Olbas Oil on a tissue in the end of the cot. Or heated in an oil burner.

I use a yellow pages and Argos catalogue next to each other underneath the mattress for ds, alternatively I think medised has a decongestant in, you can get that at the Tesco pharmacy, oh and it makes them a little drowsy so she might sleep better.

Of course if you don't want to medicate rub vicks on her chest and back. I also put one teaspoon full in hot water in the bathroom sink while he takes a bath in the evenings. It makes breathing easier, you don't really want to stop a cough it might lead to nasty infections.

Thanks, but it's not the cold that's the problem she has medised and vaporub which is stopping the snot leakage, but it doesn't stop the cough, tixilix isn't hitting it either.

'you don't really want to stop a cough it might lead to nasty infections.'

Really? how come? (Geniunely interested BTW!)

It's just killing me having to go into her every hour as I am 14 weeks pg and going through 'knackered' stage

The gp told me that if the mucus is not expelled it can lead to bacterial infections like some forms of pneumonia or bronchitis. I also found that if ds lies on his side the coughing gets better, but the raised mattress works the best, it really just helps that the nasal drip doesn't irritate the throat as much and that it doesn't go into the lower respiratory tract.

Hadn't thought of that but it makes sense.
I tried raising her mattress awhile ago but she is never the same way up as she is a fidget so I found her at 2am head down scrunched in a ball at the wrong end off the cot coughing madly

May just carry on dosing her and hoping it wil be over soon....!