pneumonia? Bronchitis?

kellnbri

DS woke up Friday night coughing pretty badly.  We had to give him a neb treatment because it was so bad.  He threw up Saturday night from the coughing.  He hasn't been to school all week because his nose is running, he has a nasty cough (sometimes its phlegmy sounding and sometimes its wheezy), and he has a had a fever.  It has ranged from 104 down to 101.  I am taking him to the doctor tomorrow morning to see what they say.  Would you think it's just a bad cold, or something more?? 

DD started yesterday with the cough, but she never gets as sick as DS does.  

He is 4 and DD is 2

DandelionMom

Is he super exhausted?  DD is always completely worn out when she has pneumonia.  That's usually how I know to rush her in. 

kada626

It could be pneumonia. My dd1 has it right now & that describes how she is. She also says her stomach hurts. My dd2 has the the same symptoms though & our pedi is treating her as a cold right now. It's frustrating cuz I'm sure I'll be right back in with her soon if she doesn't get better.

kellnbri

he is super tired.  Today he napped for an hour and a half and he hasn't taken a nap since he was 2.5 years.  Mon night he fell asleep on the couch at 5pm and I took him upstairs.  He slept until 6:30 the following morning. 

kada626

yeah, Taylor has been sleeping a lot more than usual. Like last night, she fell asleep at 7pm last night and she usually goes to bed at 10. We took her to the pedi yesterday and the antibiotics she got have really helped already. Today she has energy and is awake. Still coughing a lot but I can tell it's a little better. So hopefully your dc can get something  too & he will start feeling better soon, poor guy!

shopgirl78

That happened to DS1.   He ran a fever for 6 days and had a terrible cough especially in the AM. It cause him to throw up. DS2 had something similar first but got over it much quicker and his fever broke much quicker.  After the 4th day of fever, I took DS1 to the clinic and they said he had bronchitis.   They gave him an anitbotic and a cough medicine.   It took 36 hours of meds to get his fever to break!  He was also much more tired, lethargic during fever peaks and had diaherria.  

Bellisimo

No way to know without listening to his lungs and getting a chest xray.   BOTH of my kids have had a horrible cough that is still lingering...and we're going on at least a month now.  Nebs, oral steroids, antibiotics, decongestants, antihistamines, etc.  MH listened to their lungs with his stethoscope every day and even though I thought they sounded like they were wheezing, they actually weren't according to him.  He even got chest xrays on both which showed no pneumonia.  Turns out they had RSV.  It has SUCKED!!  They've been super sick!

Hope he feels better soon!