Yes, this illness sounds like some sort of medieval disease or a wild bird. However, at least when my son got croup it sounded worse than it was - literally he sounded bad, but he recovered pretty quickly.
He did not have many symptoms beforehand, other than an intermittent cold that seemed to last months (and coincided with cold season and his starting day care). In the middle of the night I woke up to what sounded like a weird wheezing barking sound coming from my son's room. Sometimes croup can be really serious and cause babies to have trouble breathing. In my son's case he was still able to get air all right, he was just uncomfortable.
The next day we went to the doctor even though he was breathing fine and had no symptoms during the day. The doctor said in many kids croup just appears at night and will only happen for one or two nights. Fortunately that was what happened with us. That night I heard the barking again, only much milder and he slept better. By the next night the croup was gone.
He did not have many symptoms beforehand, other than an intermittent cold that seemed to last months (and coincided with cold season and his starting day care). In the middle of the night I woke up to what sounded like a weird wheezing barking sound coming from my son's room. Sometimes croup can be really serious and cause babies to have trouble breathing. In my son's case he was still able to get air all right, he was just uncomfortable.
The next day we went to the doctor even though he was breathing fine and had no symptoms during the day. The doctor said in many kids croup just appears at night and will only happen for one or two nights. Fortunately that was what happened with us. That night I heard the barking again, only much milder and he slept better. By the next night the croup was gone.
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