I know this thread died down a few days ago but thought I'd let you know a few things that I have found helpful..... I had croup terribly as a child, I used to go blue, pass out and stop breathing in the worst bouts that I had.However, I never grew out of it, and I still deal with it as an adult Ive been told that adult croup is "impossible" that it is just asthma, took me a good 12 months to prove the doctors wrong
The pred is a lifesaver for me, I take a 2 week course of the tablets at the change of seasons each year, cold >hot and hot > cold. Ive learnt to judge when the symptoms will start. I can tell you mine is DEFINATELY climate related, however, I also aclimatised.... My first 2 years in QLD I was symptom free, but it returned. Croup for me is always a sign that I have a slight cold or something coming on, but not any specific type of bug, i get it with cold, flu, and I even got it due to Glandular fever once.
It might also be worth getting your little boy a humidifier for his room, and also, to put a pile of pillows UNDER the mattress at the head end whenever he starts showing symptoms, so he is sleeping on a slope..... just some things that helped with me and my brothers :-)
The hot shower thing works too for the actual attacks...... not very environmentally friendly, but it still works for me to this day ensuites are usually better to trap the steam, turn the hot tap on full pelt and sit him up on the bench, to be closer to the rising hot steam...... Mum always told us to take big deep breaths and see how much of the cloud we could breath in lol.
Hope that helps even a little bit, its such a horrible illness sometimes
Last edited by Caz_88; February 16th, 2012 at 09:39 PM.
: forgot something :-)
Thank you Caz. I appreciate the info. Whilst the little boy is getting over his croup, dd has been off school with an awful cough too (but not a croupy cough), the man has been suffering with an awful cold/throat, and I have a very sore throat!
I thought for ds that it had to be quite climate related as. He was always sick at the old places (so were we all, this is the first time we have been sick here, since october, and that's a record for our family.). We had a bit of a cold spell here just before he got croup too.
Ive been told that adult croup is "impossible" that it is just asthma, took me a good 12 months to prove the doctors wrong
ensuites are usually better to trap the steam, turn the hot tap on full pelt and sit him up on the bench, to be closer to the rising hot steam...... Mum always told us to take big deep breaths and see how much of the cloud we could breath in lol.
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