January 2014 Moms

Nighttime cough

This is really just more of a vent, because we have tried everything the pediatrician asked us to try as well as a few tricks from boards, and my poor man can get no relief tonight. We are on day 3 of what seems like a minor cold. He hardly has symptoms during the day.

He's been up a couple times coughing the last two nights but always goes back down fairly easily. Tonight he's been up for two hours with no end in sight. We have him in the rock n play for elevation, we have a cool mist humidifier running full blast, before bed and after he woke up tonight we took him into the steamy bathroom for 10 minutes at a time. He has Vicks baby rub on his feet with socks on. I used saline drops and suction on his nose.

And he's still up and coughing. Poor little guy--he will be just dropping off back to sleep and bam! Coughing waking him up.

I know the answer is likely just ride it out, but if anyone's an expert and has a trick we haven't tried, I'm all ears!
TWO Babies in 2014!
DS #1 Born 01/07/2014, DS #2 Born 12/17/2014

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Re: Nighttime cough

  • Our little guy had congestion and a cough for a week after the croup. Our pediatrician's office said we could give him Benadryl at night using the same dosage we would use for Tylenol.
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  • Sorry your LO isn't feeling well. No advice here and it sounds like your doing everything u can. Hang in there.
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    Is it possible that it's allergies? Or like ally said maybe post nasal drip? Did you try hydrasense in his nose? DD had a cough from post nasal drip and the saline spray helped it really quickly.

    I hope that your lo stops coughing soon no matter what is causing it!


  • Sorry I didn't reply! In my sleepless delerium I forgot I posted! Thanks all. He eventually managed to get to sleep thank goodness. Hopefully tonight is better for him and he mends soon.
    TWO Babies in 2014!
    DS #1 Born 01/07/2014, DS #2 Born 12/17/2014

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