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Posted: 26 February 2008 at 10:35am | IP Logged

Please help I'm shattered!

Eds always gets left with a cough following any cold that is difficult to shake at night.

At the moment he has this awful tickly cough which keeps him awake from around 2am to around 5am and therefore keeps DH and I up too. I have tried medised and tyxilyx night cough - buttercup syrup - drinks of water - etc etc and nothing shakes this cough.

Any ideas as to how I can shake it? He does seem to be developing a daytime cough at the moment too which is why it is worse but this has been going on a while. Everytime I take him to the docs they tell me his chest is beautifully clear.

Posted: 26 February 2008 at 10:50am | IP Logged

I know I have replied to a post about Eds cough before suggesting asthma, and you did say the docs don't think it is - it's just that Cameron's asthma is mainly a cough. He doesn't wheeze - when he's having an attack, it starts with a cough which gets worse and worse and he struggles to breathe inbetween. His chest is rarely wheezy, unless he has a wee infection.

It's so difficult to diagnose when they are little - it was me who convinced the doctor that that was what Cameron had, and that was only because Becca had it when she was young too, and it took a couple of years for them to decided that's what it was. They then agreed, when I told them all about Cameron, and about how Becca had been, that it was probably asthma, and started him on his inhalers.

Poor you, and wee Eds. Keep going back to the doctors if you are at all concerned with him.

xxx

Posted: 26 February 2008 at 11:18am | IP Logged

Ellie is exactly the same following a cold - always gets a cough but never has anything on her chest!  she can sleep thru it tho but it still keeps us awake and if we wake her to give her medicine, she fights with us!

The best one we've used is Baby Meltus - we give it to her when she goes to bed if she was coughing in the night the night before...

I was told to raise her mattress under her head to stop the mucus settling - never worked for Ellie but may for Eds?

Posted: 26 February 2008 at 5:04pm | IP Logged

Thanks - have sent DH shopping to buy Meltus stuff.

He's bad today day time too and nothing is shifting it - poor lad!

Just hope we all get a bit more sleep tonight!

Posted: 26 February 2008 at 5:38pm | IP Logged

Poor lad. Adam has a bad cough just now too but his is eased by Medised.

Hope Eds manages to get some rest tonight and so do Mummy and Daddy, xx.

Posted: 26 February 2008 at 8:06pm | IP Logged

I spent hours sitting in our bathroom when my boys were little with the shower going as the steam helps to calm the cough down a little, just means getting comfy in there!!

Hope Eds feels better soon, so you can get some rest too

Jain xxx