Decoding the Cough in Babies & Toddlers Discussion

My son has a cough, sound rattly when he breathes, a fever of 100.6 and has vomitted twice within half an hour. any ideas?

One thing my ped always says is it that it almost always sounds worse than it is. i hate to admit it, but so far, he has been right :) if the chest sounds clear per doctor, and your child's mood is ok, and they are fever free, the cough does have a tendency to linger for some time. as far as vomiting, more often than not, a toddler or younger-aged child isn't actually vomiting per se, they are coughing up mucous and that is what is making them sick/spit up. that is what happens to my kids, they gag, and what is thrown up is mucousy (sometimes including small amount of food). i am not doc, but here again, my ped says the action of coughing so hard and bringing up mucous triggers the sick feeling in toddlers, and causes spitting up/light vomiting. i hope this is helpful info to someone. as a super worrisome parent as well, i have bombarded my ped with so many questions about this stuff, i thought i'd share :)

I am on the same boat. i have 18month baby and he has been with cough on and off for 1 month now.sometimes with mucos and sometimes dry.i took him to 3 different ped but all told m e the same that the chest is clear.but its freeking me when i hear him .pls help

My daughter is 11 months and she's had a bad cough for about 3 weeks. wakes up at nap time and night from coughing so bad.also in the am. dr.said she was fine, well everytime she coughs she screams. not sure what's going on. she has a mucas cough, but when i bring her in. they can never hear anything.someone help;

My 2.5 year old son has had a cough for 3 weeks now, it gets worse at night and he starts to throw up. please advise. we have tried several cough mixtures, no improvement.

My 2 year old daughter had this ongoing cough since birth and her dad & i would always bring it to her pediatricians attention and they would always say she was fine & healthy until i decided to take her to a children's hospital and there they found that she had asthma bronchitis and croup. we now have a newborn baby that is showing almost the same symptoms but he has kind of like a barky cough, watery eyes, runny nose & sneezing what should i worry about?

I have a 10 month old that has a cough since birth and 4 xrays keep showing something. the docs keep brushing it off until one doc said she needs to be refered to a pulmonoli

My baby has a terrible cough during the night the only thing that calms her is the humidifier with a vick's tablet.

My grandson had a fever 2 weeks ago after that have cough until now,we brought him to see the doctor last week, but last night he throw up 2x and have a white spot on his tounge.

My son had cold after cold and a cough that would not go away starting from the time he tuned one. i took him to a few doctors (based on specialist referrals) who put him on a long list of meds, inhalers, did tests and x-rays... i thought this was crazy for a one year old! both my husband and i are mostly healthy and the most we would take for ourselves would be tylenol. finally, we took him to a naturopathic doctor. he's 2.5 years old now and very healthy. turns out it was food intolerances to dairy and gluten. today he can have both, we just make sure to keep on eye on the quality of food he eats.

My 18 month old daughter has always had these deep barking like cough. a month go i had to take her to the er, come to find out she had croup. the dr prescribed her an inhaler, which now doesn't seem to do much, since birth she has always had a deep cough. they have done x-rays and could not find anything. when we are out in public and she starts coughing, people always ask me if she is sick and she is just fine. is there a specialist that could see her.

Check for mold around the windows either black pink or orange in some case of children with cronic cough they cant resolve it ended up being inhaled mold spores it happened to our kids and some of our friends children as well it is sneaky and can hide easily just look along the seals and in the seams. alot of prolonged coughs in infants can be caused by an milk allergy my friends son, had this took six months to figure it out poor little guy as for the mold a wet towel with bleach will clean it right up if it is your apartment complex they are legally responsible to take care of it in several,countries i wipe down my kids windows now every week with just a touch of bleach. hidden mold can also be a culprit look for condensation on the windows when closed if there is wetness on the seal or in the window you can bet there is mold somewhere

Our son has had a dry cough for almost 4 months. he snorts followed by a series of dry coughs but he has no runny nose. no fever, no problem sleeping, he is very active and heathy...except for the constant snorting and dry cough. it happens mostly when he is not playing. we haven't been worried so far, thinking it was going to go away on its own...but it's not. anyone?

My son had a cold, i think, last week...he has been congested and is just now starting to cough, i don't know if he is just coming off of the cold or it is something more serious. the cough sounds like it is breaking up the mucus, but it is in his chest.

To amelia, hey, my daughter ended up having a milk allergy and couldn't digest milk for the first year of her life. she had eating problems and a cough and it ended up being that along with acid reflux. they gave me something to help out with it. good luck.

My son has bad a slight cough since birth. the dr has never said anything about it. about 2 weeks ago he got a cold and has been hacking since. during the night it usually doenst wake him, but sometimes it's a pretty intense coug. where i think he may vomit. i'm thinking it's time to see the doctor, but i'm tired of going in there and not getting answers. she didn't have any answers about his eating problems and i doubt she'll have any about this cough. btw the runny nose is gone and he has no other symptoms of a cold anymore.

To krystal: i'm just curious, is your baby now and has she always been breastfed? it would seem quite normal to have such immune dysfunctions for a baby who has been fed formula from the start. either way, the only helpful advice i have is start getting probiotics into her body(do your research! they are so different in quality) and forget about the antibiotics, because that is undoubtedly creating a less resiliant immune system, because antibiotics kill everything, meaning good and bad bacteria. we all need certain good bacterias to thrive. i also recommend trying the naturopathic route....they can help to actually find the cause of the symptom and find a "cure" instead of a "band-aid" to mask the symptoms present at the moment. jope this brought some sort of helpful insight!

Thank you for the tips, my baby is down with cough, i am sure your tips will really help! nicole

My daughter has had, croup, chest infection, reflux, flu and now bronculitis and she is all of 5 months old!!!. she has had the antibiotics they administer for bronculitis, but that was 3 weeks ago and she is still coughing and being kept up all night by it!!! help!!! what is happening?, could anyone tell me how to find out if babies have asthma?? my doc is not sure so we waiting to see if the predisone medication works, so far, 3 days, still coughing the same!

My 2 year old son has had a cough only at night for about 5 wks had 2 lots of antibotics still got it not sure if its ashtma or not