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    Posted: 06 September 2006 at 2:59pm
Can anyone help me?
My son has suffered from croup on several occasions and I am at a loss with what I should do now....
I have done the whole wet towel over his oil column heater, we've been up hospital and to the 24hour surgery and he hs been given a liquid steroid called redipred, which really helped the first 2 times but Monday night he was beside himself again with it and we went to the 24 hour surgery (3 1/2 hours later) he was given redipred again and this time nothing helped, I feel totally helpless - not to mention exhausted being awake for almost 48 hours - any ideas??
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Points: 1325 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ellabellame Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 September 2006 at 3:04pm
oh that sounds awful! you poor thing. mikey had a croupy cough once and even though it wasn't as bad as your son sounds, it was still nasty. i found that taking him in the bath with me with afew drops of lavender oil in it helped. i'm not sure whether it helped his cough or just relaxed him so that he could deal with it a bit better.
sorry i'm not more help, i hope things get better soon, it must be really miserable for oth you and your son.

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Yeap - poor wee pumpkin, he doesn't know what to do with himself, haven't tried lavander oil in the bath, although I do have some lavander baby lotion, i'll try that after his bath tonight - thanks
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one of my girls gets it all the time. i ended up having to buy a steam vapourisour. Also have they looked that he hasnt got asthma. I find that sometimes having her inhaler helps.


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They gave him an inhaler a while ago but the problem with it is that it dries his throat out and that makes him worse, poor little man has had everything and has had enough medication going in everywhere and freaks out knowing whats coming ! I may try it again tonight.
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My brother used to get croup a lot as a child, he was also asthmatic although not badly.
Mum would take him into the bathroom and run a hot shower to steam it up. Breathing in the steam for 15-20 minutes seemed to clear it really well, maybe that will help your boy?
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