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We are just coming out of an awful week of croup for our older daughter (2.5). Her croup seemed like sort of a cold at first, then quickly turned into a really bad cough, which morphed into croup within about 12-24 hours. It was scary, and the sickest she has ever been (and she's been sick a lot). More than the sound of the cough was the frequency for us--we were doing everything: steam showers, humidifier, warm water with lemon, and nothing was helping at all. Her couch was constant and incessant--literally constant. Not even a 1 minute break between coughing fits. We went to the doctor the first time and they thought it was just bronchitis and they gave us saline breathing treatments and Bromfed dm. That did nothing. 48 scary hours of misery and constant coughing later, we went back and finally they diagnosed croup and got her on an oral steroid. About 12 hours after the first dose of that, she finally turned a corner and now 3 days later she has a regular, very wet and gross sounding cough but it isn't constant.

I had my first experience this fall, terrible. It didn't last long but it was scary to hear, sitting her up helped and then taking her outside made it go away. It was a cool but not cold night so I took her outside and had her sleep laying up
on my chest for an hour. The cold air helps. Then I had her sleep propped up. She acted pretty normal the next day but the next night she started coughing again but thankfully it wasn't the barking deal cough but I did prop her up for a few nights.

Ugh croup is the worst. Think that's what we have right now too. He's had it many times.