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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Anyone up?? Raspy, weezing breathing??
Ugh. I've already talked to the on-call pedi (sounded like he was dead asleep, lol), but anyway, W has had a bit of a runny nose for about a day and a half now. No biggie, I didn't think. He's been otherwise 100% normal. He started coughing just a tiny bit late this afternoon, a yucky barking cough, but probably only 1 cough an hour..so again, I wasn't too concerned. I had a decongestant prescribed from a doc-in-a-box a bit back when he had a bad cold and ear infection, and started giving him that during the day in hopes that this runny nose wouldn't lead to an ear infection (he's got tubes...prone to EIs). I've also been using saline spray and the nasal aspirator. Put him to bed as normal at about 8:30. At 1:30 I woke up to him screaming crying, sounding really hoarse, and with a terrible raspy, weezy breathing. I tried to calm him down, and brought him into our bed. Even after he'd calmed down and fallen back asleep, he was still breathing somewhat fast and very rattle-ly/noisily. This is when I called the on-call pedi. He said it sounded a bit "suspicious" and that I needed to: 1) have him sleep with a humidifier (already had been doing that tonight) or even take him into a steamy bathroom; 2) elevate the head of his crib; 3) make sure he's drinking a bunch when awake; and 4) if none of these seem to be helping, take him to the Children's Hospital for a breathing treatment.
So, I've got him back to sleep, in his room, humidifier going full-blast, head of the mattress raised. I'm going to go check on him in about 20 minutes, but at what point would you say it's time to go to the hospital?? I know I'm not going to sleep at all tonight, but I also don't want to over-react if he's just got a nasty cold. Ugh.
Thanks if anyone is awake and made it this far...
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Re: Anyone up?? Raspy, weezing breathing??
I'm so sorry that he is sick.
Our DS has some bad breathing problems (also bad asthma) so we always deal with this when he is sick.
Is he retracting when he breathes? If so, you would see him sort of sucking in around his ribs or on his sides. If he is retracting I would probably head to the Children's Hospital for a breathing treatment. If he's wheezing but not actually retracting I wouldn't be all that concerned and would just follow with what you are doing (at least for now).
Kids retract when they are truly struggling to breathe so that would be the #1 thing that sent us to the hospital.
I hope he feels better!!
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DS had that last fall. It was horrible. What we did was elevating the bed, pump him with fluids, clean out his nose a lot, and took him into a steamy bathroom once a day. It was that way for about a week and he did really well when he slept on my chest.
I hope he feels better soon! Oh! I almost forgot. Our pedi gave us some Musinex for him. It was the small packets and we only did half once a day, but I think it helped.