Nighttime coughing keep the whole house up?

Posted by Jeff on March 22, 2008

Source: FlickrHow many households have at least one child or parent with a cough or other head cold? I’m guessing quite a lot since about 90% of my friends and family I talk to have one, including our preschool son. His cough seems to get worse in the evening and of course goes away each morning around 9am! So in my search for some peace and quiet at bedtime I Googled and found a few “home” remedies for soothing and hopefully quieting the nighttime cough. Read the rest of this entry »

Cough, Bark, Hack! The Croup is Back!

Posted by Jeff on January 22, 2008

12:20am and I’m just about ready to go to bed after wrapping up some work and blog posts on other sites. “COUGH COUGH, BARK BARK, HACK HACK!” I hear from down the hallway. I immediately think, “OH NO! The croup is BACK!” That’s right readers, with winter comes many fun things for our young ones, but none of them enjoy the frightening cough from the croup.

Boo is woken out of a sound sleep and before I could get to his door he is standing there barking like a seal. Of course I immediately think it’s the worse sounding cough I’ve heard from him, and even worse than the two bouts of croup last year! I head to the closet and pull out the dehumidifier and get that running while Mommy tries to sooth him. He’s SO tired but the look of terror on his face just makes it that much worse for me.

So what is croup?

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