Croup

All these years I had thought croup was an old time illness that didn't happen nowadays. Remember in Anne of Green Gables, Diana's sister had croup and Anne had to go help. Well, Landon has been suffering from croup for 3 nights now. It is actually pretty scary. He has been having trouble breathing since the first night. Last night and this morning it became steadily harder for him to get air into his lungs. Each breath you could see the strain in his neck and hear him try to pull air in.

I finally decided to take him to Urgent Care . . . he was rushed back, they began to nebulize him giving him medicine, then informed me after getting a history etc . . . that an ambulance was ordered and he was being taken to the hospital emergency room. Okay . . . this scared me a bit. His breathing pattern was called Stridor ( breathing in through a tiny straw size hole due to airway being inflamed). I called derrick to tell him and followed in the van.

The treatments worked, xrays showed nothing really, it was called croup and they sent us home with extra steroids and an inhaler. If he starts to have stridor again, return to the ER immediately for the 24 hours hospital stay.

So far he is doing well, I can just hear him a little as he tries to breath in. It was scary.