Tips for surviving nursery sickness?

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My LO is one and has never been a great sleeper, so I'm pretty used to not getting much rest.

However, since starting nursery, things have become completely untenable and I'm desperately looking for tips on how to cope.

A good night for my girl is 3/4 wakes - I can totally cope with this, so I'm not being precious when I say her current situation is killing me. She has had a 5 week cough that is so deep it wakes her every ten minutes, it's clearly hurting her and I can hear why. It's dry, deep, raspy and sounds like it's coming from the bowels of hell. She's also given it to my husband and me, so I have to make my husband sleep downstairs otherwise I'd have one coughing on the monitor and one coughing next to me.

Her cough had almost cleared up after 5 hard weeks, and now... she has a new bug, which has brought back the nasty cough. It's not there during daytime hours, but at night it is horrendous. I've tried

Putting books under top end of the crib
Warm snufflebabe bath before bed
Steamy bathroom
Calpol plugins
Saline spray before bed
Ibuprofen and calpol for fevers (have come back with a vengeance)

The only way she can sleep is upright and on me. Doesn't work with husband because his cough wakes her up, he's coughing 24/7 and barely has any voice left after 5 weeks of hacking.

Is this just life now? Do I just need to crack on sleeping upright in a chair until it passes?

How old is she? How long has she been at nursery.

Yes nursery is a Petri dish of illness. But they do get some immunity eventually.

My eldest was sick for the first 6 months, I even took him to the GP but they confirmed that they were just recurrent illnesses. My youngest was ill for the first 3 and hand foot and mouth last week, he's constantly snotty but I don't even count that as illness now. And he puts everything in his mouth so I figure it's his own fault really 🤣

She's one, been at nursery 6 weeks

My son was similar with a fairly constant cough and snotty nose (amongst other illnesses). We eventually took him to the doctor and he had a chest infection so was prescribed antibiotics which helped clear it up. Unfortunately he seems to catch everything and brings it home. I've never been as unwell as I have since he started nursery.

The problem is that her chest is clear during the day - so it really does seem to be a cough, not a chest infection! She definitely has some form of virus too as she's spiking frevers every few hours atm but I have no doubt that when they clear we will be left with this nasty cough again for weeks and weeks

OP, take her to the doctor. They may be able to prescribe steroids to help. A cough that lingers so long (even if it's only overnight) merits treatment. Good luck x

I have and they just said nursery bugs - should I persist?