(Not a health professional.) That is called a chest retraction (at least if her chest is pulling in between her ribs), and it's a sign that she's working really hard to breathe. Medical professionals do seem to find it a bit worrying, just because little kids can go from "hard to breathe" to "not breathing well enough to get enough oxygen" fairly fast. I'd take a kid to a doctor with chest retractions. If you're in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Tasmania, South Australia or Western Australia you could ring healthdirect on 1800 022 222, in Queensland 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84) and they can advise you how soon you need to see a doctor.
I'll echo what everyone else said. Boytwin has had more than his fair share of chest infections and normally I am able to nurse it at home, but when chest retractions start it is time to go to hospital
Agreed with everyone else, best to get her checked hun. I was told that coughing like that can be a symptom of asthma too. Iz gets astmatic symptoms when shes got a cold and needs a ventolin to help her breathe. Good luck xoxo
What is her cheast like inbewteen the coughing, if she is working harder when she is breathing in the chest area, this is called chest recessions, and is a sign of respiratory distress, you can also look at the base of her neck, there is a hole there, is the skin there moving in and out (neck tug or traecheal tug) that is also a sign of resiratory distress. But wth the combination of the temps cough etc, I would definitely get her checked out
thanks for all the replies, shes actually asleep (she had a bad bad day sleep) she only sucks in when its a hard/bad coughing episode and not with normal breathing, if she was at rest i would take her, will see how she goes overnight
im worried about croup as she sounds hoarse when she cries when she breathes in at that point it sounds different
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