Any LO's who have Croup- come on in?

Re: Any LO's who have Croup- come on in?

• CWSKHC member

  January 2013

  Croup is the devil! Arg! I hate it SO much! LO had it back in October and has it again right now. It's just awful. Not a whole lot helps besides cuddles, but I do keep a cool mist humidifier on in his room at night and when he got really bad Saturday night I wrapped him up in a huge blanket and took him outside in the cool air for a little while. That helps when they're having a bad crying/coughing episode. Good luck....I feel your pain.

  
  
  

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• MesmrEwe member

  January 2013

  The cold hair helps...  I have a friend who swears by the "Old Wives Tale" of cooking aromatics helping to get things loosened up whenever her kids get it.  It's what they had "way back when" in the days before medications...  Tylenol can help sometimes in not making the post nasal drip as much of a tickle/gag...  The cold air as a PP mentioned is what helped me a lot a few weeks ago when I was in the worst of it (I've been having a reaction to a vaccine I wasn't suppose to get that version of).  You might also want to give some allergy meds a shot since I know some are labeled for this age, if anything it might help get them some sleep...

  Soap Box Alert: This is what bugs me about how they took children's cough and cold medicine off the shelf for kids virtually under the age of 6...  If the kid isn't getting any sleep and is up busting a gut from coughing so hard they aren't able to recover as quickly.  Doctors don't want kids coming in with colds, so why take an effective way for parents to help their kid rest and recover off the table.  Maybe a better recommendation would have been for companies to take the tylenol out of cold medicines and have it stand on its own so people wouldn't have messed up with double-doses because they didn't check to label to know that it was one of the active ingredients...

  

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• Mustardseed2007 member

  January 2013

  We sat with him in the bathroom with the shower going, used a humidifier at night, saline + a nosfrida snot sucker (this was really great actually but LO hated it), fed him peaches and fruit with vitamin C, and  gave him some cough syrup prescribed by the doctor....the things that I think finally turly helped it was time though, and he was pretty miserable until it was over.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

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• designer303 member

  January 2013

  Thank you so much for the insight- we are on the mend

  TTC#1 May 2009- July 2010 on our own with no luck

  Started with RE in August 2010, dx with unexplained IF and then finally our 3rd IUI cycle using Follistim and Trigger resulted in our wonderful little man.  Born 12/2/11

  TTC#2 Never really prevented, but were careful early on as Dr. reccomended

  Surprise BFP 12/16/13, started progesterone immediately as first numbers came back low, but betas were good.  Progesterone wasnt enough. Natural MC 12/24/13.

  Back with RE as of January 2014...

  5/27/14- Chemical Pregnancy

  April 2015 IVF#1

  5/13/15- BFP, please stick LO!

  Oh and I'm a major Harry Potter Nerd

  

   
    

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