bronchiolitis and humidifiers?

She keeps crying this sad little tired cry, she can't sleep because she's so wheezy, and now she's only drinking about 20mL at a time I hope we don't have to take her back to the Urgent Dr again today but she just seems to be struggling more and more

HUGE hugs... they can give them a steriod to help with breathing.. deifnietly take her back in if necessary. Keeping her upright and leaning on you may help her breathe a bit easier.
A humidifier? is that to put moistuer in the room? a dehumidifier takes the excess moisture out of the air eh??!
we don't have either of those things, as they run more power etc, but if it was going to help you will be able to get them from harvey normals,warehouse etc.
Keep us posted.

the plug in thing is the vaporiser that we have, he said a humidifier too but I've just been taking her into the bathroom with the hot shower running so she can breathe in the steam (which I'm sure is probably more expensive but oh well it seems to help a little).

She's finally asleep with the bassinet propped up and the vaporiser right underneath, she wouldn't drink any of her last feed though. i guess we will have to see how things go the rest of the night and in the morning.

I'm so tired but I don't think I will be getting much sleep tonight either with her still wheezing, coughing and grunting every time she breathes

I asked the Dr about asthma because I get it and he said they couldn't diagnose that until the child is 3 years old, or something like that. Then he listened to her lungs and said she definitely had bronchiolitis and told me all about it.

It's so hard being a mummy sometimes, I feel exhausted.

Sucks that she is so young. We had the same thing with both our kids. Both hospitilised at just over 2 and under 1. jBoth given oxygen as their levels were dangerously low. really freaky and horrible.
With the steriods - tastes really yuk. we mixed it with yoghurt and got it down easier.
BTW, Taine still gets wheezy, but Jake very rarely, so they don't think he has asthma, even though he had several attacks as a toddler

Oh you poor thing having to deal with such a sick bubba praying for you guys.

Do you think he meant a dehumidifier?

Poor little bubba and poor mummy too.

My little girl has the same thing. She is so hoarse that she can't actually cry. That's been worrying me because if somethings very wrong, how will I know without watching her all night, which is what I've been doing for last 4 nights. She has been coughing so much that she finishes the cough with choking and then vomiting because she coughs so much it makes her sick. I can't bear it.

Only thing is...my dr told me that the humidifyer wouldn't make a difference. Have you tried it yet because I'm wondering if I SHOULD give it a go.

Dr also told me it's highly likely she will have a cough until she's one with this. (They also said they couldn't diagnose asthma yet. I think she has athsma and the virus on top of that makes a flu 101 times worse.

Soooo....hugs to you and I understand!!!

I managed to get a two hour nap this arvo while hubby was home. Hope you are managing to get some rest too :-)

Oh, our poor babies!!
I have just come back from the specialist at hospital as our baby is booked for surgery for something completely different and specialist thinks she may have a abnormality in her wind pipe. Weird, first they said it was her voice box then bonchoitits and now a wind pipe? In other words, they wouldn't have a clue. What ever it is on top of the flu is just nasty. Poor girl is not happy.

Hope your little princess is a little happier today.

Glad we're fianlly booked for surgery. Public was tricky and kept putting second surgery off so we've gone private and just like that....booked for surgery! I know they work on urgency, at least we got the frst one done. Hope her flu is gone by then or we have to wait another month.

Hugs to your and your gorgeous little poppet!