bad cough

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Hi everyone!

 

All my kids caught a minor cold/cough last week into this week. I treated them

all with echinacea, a eucalyptus & thyme chest rub, and have been giving them

cinnamon and honey. On top of this they all are drinking lots of fluids.

 

3 of the kids responded well to the treatment above and still have a minor cough

once and a while during the day. But 1 of them my 5yr old daughter is responding

at all! In fact her cough is getting worse! Last night on top of all the other

stuff I'm doing I put her in the shower and got it really steamy then added some

eucalyptus and geranium to the water and had her inhale that. She didn't want to

get out as it felt good in there. But she was still coughing something fierce.

 

Her cough is very deep in the chest, loose but mostly unproductive, and

constant. She doesn't seem to be able to catch a break at all. Last night she

vomitted a couple times (most of it was mucus) because her coughing was so bad!

She's complaining of a headache and her chest along with muscles are sore from

coughing so bad. It took her 2 hours last night to finally fall asleep after I

put them to bed. She just got so exhausted and crashed but still coughed in her

sleep.

 

I've had bronchitis before and her cough sounds exactly like that. She also has

a low grade fever that came on yesterday. This is day 4 of the cough and

treatment for her.

 

Any ideas? I do not want to call the doctor and have her end up on antibiotics!

 

Thanks,

Stephanie