DS has had a cold and cough for a week now. They are VERY congested with this, waking up with thick green mucus pouring out of their nose every morning, and waking up every few hours with a cough because of the mucus, and coughing so hard that they throw up the mucus. The intense coughing and throwing up only happens at night and is always connected to coughing.
We've tried saline spray, hot water steam, vapour rubs, Calpol plug ins, bulb syringes... absolutely nothing works. The GP was contacted on day 5 and was unconcerned saying it was just a viral illness and to let it take its course, but the cough seems to be worse at night than ever, and I thought by a week we'd begin to see some improvement with the congestion too, but it's just the same.
He's otherwise, during the day, an alert, happy, playful child, still eating and drinking well. But the night time coughing and vomiting episodes are causing him and us a great deal of stress.