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Constant illness

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CarlyRose80 · 08/12/2013 15:17

Hi
Please help and advise. 1 year old is constantly getting one bug after the next (no infection according to docs) but every time we get through one thing another arrives. He's just got over a stomach bug and now is full of cough/sore throat and just shattered. Each time he eventually settles he starts coughing and wakes up then won't settle. Night times are horrendous, I do all the norm, Vicks, albas oil, raise cot mattress etc. Please someone help as I don't know how else to help him. Anyone know of steamers or vaporisers? I'm at the end of my tether now. tia xx

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BotBotticelli · 09/12/2013 20:53

Hi CarlyRose [waves], i remember you from lots of other threads on this sleep board. I have a 12mo too. he has just started nursery and has had a cold pretty much consistently since mid October :(

I have also tried all the things you suggest - apart from raising the cot head, cos he crawls all round the cot at night and would end up sleeping head down Hmm.

A doctor told me that you should make the bathroom very steamy with a hot shower on and then take a couple of toys in there with them and play for 10 mins, a couple of times a day. The steam can help. Have you tried a dose of calpol at bedtime? When I had a hideous head cold which makes my face hurt, I would never go to bed without a lemsip, which is primarily paracetamol, same as calpol....might help? Seems to help our DS. We put adult olbas oil on a tissue under his cot on the floor so he definitely cant touch it.

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CarlyRose80 · 15/12/2013 08:59

Hi. It's endless isn't it? Ended up with an ear infection and bronchitis bless him. Antibiotics and he's better a week later now back to not sleeping through. Aghhhhh. It never stops. One thing causes something else to change. It's so hard. I just want him to sleep through again. How's your little one now?

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