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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was wanting to post about croup so I'll ask you Mom's here:
Our 3 1/2 year old DD woke at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday wheezing and coughing.  She wheezed for about an hour and then it was gone.  It seemed as if she had swallowed wrong and it was mostly in her throat.

Now today she seems wheezy in the throat again.  No cold symptoms, but it seems she may have something coming on.  Is this how the croup typcially starts and do 3 almost 4 year olds get it?[/quote]

As my child's doctor explained it to me:

Typically the first night of croup is the worst; the child might have just had small cold symptoms, maybe a runny nose, during the day, but wakes at night with a barking seal like cough.   The child has stridor -- difficulty breathing in.  It may be mistaken by parents for wheezing, so the doctor was always careful to ask me to mimic what the difficulty sounded like.

The croupy, barking cough will go away usually in an hour or so-- especially if you open all the windows or take the child outside for some cold air.   I think the moist shower techniqu has been proven ineffective, but don't take my word on that.  It certainly never worked for us.

Then the child will be OK the next day, but the croupy, barking seal like cough will return the next night and maybe even the third -- but will be much less severe -- usually the first night is the worst of it.

My children have never had asthma attacks so I don't know how they differ.

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