I’m like so exhausted. My 18 month old was sick a couple weeks ago, but he still has a pretty nasty sounding cough. Should I take him back to the pediatrician to see if she can give him anything or wait it out? I just don’t like going and being told nothing.
2 Likes
You can use a humidifier that can help break it up but they might just say you have to let it run it’s course
Pineapple juice 
a spoonful of honey and loads of sugar free Popsicles to keep them hydrated.
If is sounding worse,i’d take him back to doc.May need antibiotic
2 Likes
Depends on what he was sick with before. He may need a second round of antibiotics. Call your Peds office and ask what the doctor wants you to do.
Also putting Vicks Vapo Rub on the bottom of his feet with socks covering does help a cough.
Warm tea (no honey) if they will drink it. You can run a humidifier and rub baby vicks on their chest. They do make an all natural cough med by hylands for younger kids. Check the age on that one.
Take him to see if he needs breathing treatment and just to make sure his lungs or ok I have 2 everything the get sick the start coughing and the get a rattling noise in the chest and the cough takes forever to go away
1 Like
Elderberry syrup from Gracefully Natural will change your life.
Vick vapor rub on the bottom of the feet, then put socks on. Worked for my kiddo.
Zarbee’s has a cough medicine that is suitable for that age. I use it for my 19 month old
Go to doctor. If it’s been that long, how would you feel if you had to tough it out that long?
I’ve had croup all my life, some things that helped if I was in the middle of a coughing fit and couldn’t get air is putting my head in the freezer or out the window if it was cooler outside, the cold air is easier to breathe and soothes your throat too, or head over a bowl of hot water and vicks with a towel on thier head to help trap the steam, also don’t have them sleep on thier back it creates that phlegm build up, temperature changes in general can be triggering too going from a cold air conditioned building to the hot stuff air outside will always make me flare up, both my little ones get croup too, everyone we get a cold or flu 
My son was sick an still had his cough after a couple weeks I took him back they said his lungs sounded kinda junky and gave him steroids it cleared up in a week!
It’s not completely uncommon for a cough to linger… especially at that age.
Steam is pretty good for helping to break some of that up. Warm drinks (particularly peppermint tea).
I don’t think it would hurt to call his doctors office and speak with a nurse and see what they think.
Phenomena is going around pretty bad right now please get your little one checked?
Pharmacist told me plain pineapple juice.
Pneumonia is going around pretty bad. I would have a doctor check him out just to be safe.