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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our youngest child (3) was diagnosed with croup last night at the ER. He had stopped breathing but is fine now, after steroids. We are monitoring him closely and pressing rest and fluids.

Our oldest child (6) has allergy-induced asthma that has been stable for 2.5 years with allergy treatment. (He has been ill a few times and not needed his inhalers.) He currently has a mild and very occasional cough and no other symptoms. Says he feels fine. No sounds of wheezing or any other asthma symptoms.

We'll be asking this of our pediatrician at follow-up today, but curious if others have experience with croup in an older, asthmatic child. Did you start your asthma action plan? [/quote]

Our daughter was triggered by respiratory virus, so we did start the action plan, but only because my husband refused to allow treatment unless she was sick, so we were always in rescue mode. That said, your older child might croup, but his airway is now big enough to handle the inflammation. The allergy treatment should keep the inflammation at bay.

That's REALLY scary that it stopped your son breathing. REALLY scary. Glad the steroids are on board. [/quote]

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