Night cough

nybride0705

DD has a horrible cough that won't let her sleep some nights. The pedi said it was ok to give her a cough suppresant and I give her water but I don't know what else to do.  She's not sick, no symptoms only coughing when she sleeps.

auburnbride2be

DD gets this too any time she is even remotely sick with drainage or a cold. She's got asthma though so I use an inhaler with her. It's really bad during allergy season and in the winter.

KathrynMD

run the humidifier and see if it helps too.

DTNZ4Ever

DS gets that from time to time. We use honey to help sooth and baby Vicks. Along with the humidifier.

CarolinaDaisy

If she is not sick and it is bad enough to wake some nights or is persistent at night, I'd suspect cough variant asthma. Our 4 yr old DS has this and has been on preventative inhaler for awhile with albuterol to pull out as needed when it flares up.

 He has no daytime wheezing ever. It only presents at night as a wicked night cough....but since he started meds, he's fine and sleeps so much better!

jc&cat

Coughing at bedtime took us to a pulmonologist and ended up with a diagnosis of night-onset reactive airway disease. As I understand it is a form of asthma or it can accompany asthma. He is treated as if it is asthma. He has 2 puffs/2x daily of flovent. After like 2 days of using it after diagnosis, the nagging night cough disappeared. I would raise it again to your pedi.