Nighttime cough...what is this?

[Anonymous]

Last week DD had a fever for a few days. She had no appetite and was cranky which is pretty much what I would expect with the fever. She had no other symptoms. Shortly after her fever ended, I acquired a dry cough. I don't have a fever or any other symptoms but I have this nagging cough which worsens at night. Could this be the mild version of H1N1 passed from DD?

[Anonymous]

If she had no other symptoms, I doubt she had H1N1. If you only have a dry cough, you don't have H1N1.
But I'm not an MD, so take that with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

My friend had 3 kids with H1N1 -- 2 were swabbed so it was confirmed. She and her husband also caught it, but not swabbed. They all 5 manifested completely differently. She said with 1 kid, had the other 2 not also been sick, she probably would not have even noticed that child was sick. Her husband got very sick, she got barely sick -- just aches and fatigue.

I believe (but none of us swabbed) that my whole family has also had it. Our symptoms were all completely different and duration ranged from just 12 hours of sickness for 1 kid to a week for another.

[Anonymous]

Could be whooping cough.

[Anonymous]

A dry cough is worse than a productive cough. It could mean asthma or an infection that settled in the lungs. I'm not a doc, either (just a mom of an asthmatic boy), but since many people either don't get any symptoms from H1N1 or very mild symptoms, it seems "possible" your dry cough is your version of swine flu.

[Anonymous]

Also, a dry nighttime cough could just mean you need more moisture in the air. Try a humidifier. It's been cold at night (do you have the heat on? that dries the air too) so that dries the air. Also, are you a mouth breather? another reason for a nightime cough.

[Anonymous]

I had a terrible dry cough with H1N1 that became "productive" a week later and is still hanging around. On week 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a terrible dry cough with H1N1 that became "productive" a week later and is still hanging around. On week 3.

Nice to hear this. Me too -- dry cough was the last symptom to start, and now I have a somewhat productive cough and weakness but thankfully no more headache, and I've been sick for 8 days.

[Anonymous]

These dry coughs are totally going around. I had it and lots of my friends and co-workers had it. No one has been told they have H1N1, but none of us had a fever. I tried a humidifier, drinking hot liquids, etc. Nothing helped but time. It is finally gone about 10 days from the time it started.