sarahmck
07-08-09, 06:19 AM
I'm wondering if my 4-year old daughter has whooping cough. She has only been coughing for a few days now, and it has generally only been first thing in the morning. However, this evening while sleeping, she has woken twice with a giant choking intake of breath (what I imagine to be the stereotypical whoop), followed by lots of coughing that sounds like something large and disgusting is going to come flying out of her mouth. In her morning coughing fits, she has told me that she feels like she's going to vomit.
During the day, she coughs little.
My baby son also had a similar coughing thing without the whoop about a month ago. It lasted for a while, at least a few weeks. Also only when he woke up. It didn't last the 100 days that one hears about with whooping cough.
I would be feeling pretty suspicious of whooping cough if it weren't for the fact that all the accounts I've read of it describe a coughing fit culminating in a whoop, not beginning from nothing with one. Is that also a possibility?
We are travelling and won't be back home for another 10 days or so. If it is whooping cough, is there anything besides vitamin C that I can do for her? I have magnesium ascorbate with me.
During the day, she coughs little.
My baby son also had a similar coughing thing without the whoop about a month ago. It lasted for a while, at least a few weeks. Also only when he woke up. It didn't last the 100 days that one hears about with whooping cough.
I would be feeling pretty suspicious of whooping cough if it weren't for the fact that all the accounts I've read of it describe a coughing fit culminating in a whoop, not beginning from nothing with one. Is that also a possibility?
We are travelling and won't be back home for another 10 days or so. If it is whooping cough, is there anything besides vitamin C that I can do for her? I have magnesium ascorbate with me.