we're using an oil heater in DS's room - I'm not comfortable with him having a fan heater in there or a radiant heater and his room gets rather cold overnight as the heating at that end of our house is pretty bad. I just make sure it's in the middle of the room and there's nothing that can fall on it or touch it (unless I bump it in the middle of the night when getting up for DS and don't turn the light on and then I just push it back to where it was). Makes me feel a bit better about using one.
Just another tip that I was given when I called nurse on call, you can give them a little bit of warm apple juice, it is meant to help ease the coughing spasms. I didn't get to try it as we live 30 mins from town and I didn't have any juice on hand, but a girlfriend tried to it when son had a cough that wouldn't stop and she said it worked.
I also read conflicting advice about warm versus cold air... and we ended up ditching vaporiser, but didn't really try the cold air thing either. When my little fella had it for the first time a month or so ago, he just showed up with a "big" cough (i.e. not a croupy cough per se). He was checked on a Monday morning and we were told he was fine. By Weds afternoon he was puffing as if he'd run a marathon - so that's my tip, to watch for that breathlessness too. I didn't ever hear a distinctive cough from him, but the GP said he had a moderate-severe case of it. Our GP suggested if we're ever unsure, take off his top and watch his chest move (as well as bring them to the doc of course) - so I'll always do that now, even in the absence of a cough. You can really see them having to work so much harder at their breathing. And like so many others here, we've now got redipred on hand in case of another attack.
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