The whole family has nasty coughs, some worse than others. James is favoring me with the saddest, most pathetic little tiny-cry ever, today. I guess it hurts too much for the real thing, poor baby. When I was up with the choir, I had to mouth the words to half of two different songs so I didn't turn purple or ruin the song with coughing. I don't know how Jonathan survived his narrator duties. I knew I couldn't take Joseph to nursery like that, though, so when we finished Sacrament Meeting I started bundling up both him and James, who had lost his clothes to a dirty diaper by this time. Elena, however, had sprinted off to Primary the instant the prayer was over and I didn't have the heart to break her the bad news. So, the little boys and I are at home and we'll need to go get Daddy and Elena in just a minute.
Question: What do you do for a 3 1/2 month-old with a cough and a sore throat?
I Bag To Differ
1 hour ago
4 comments:
For the rest of you I would suggest lemon juice and honey. Warmed a little may help or even just some honey will help the cough.
Gosh, for James...I do not know. Is he too little for some baby Tylenol?
I hope Whooping Cough isn't going around down there...if your coughing doesn't get better soon I would take everyone into the doctor. You don't want to be sick at Christmas if you can help it.
Good luck- I hope you all feel better soon.
So sorry that you're all sick. We are too. I wish I could tell you what to do for James. But, I've had a hard enough time coming up with relief for a 10 month old. We've been giving him tylenol and benedryl (with the hope that the benedryl helps keep things from draining down his throat and causing the cough and sore throat). The only other thing I know of for babies with colds is saline, but that doesn't help coughs much. Maybe a humidifier or a steamy bathroom?
Do the lemon juice with sugar instead of honey for James.
Oh yeah, thanks for pointing that out. We already knew not to give him honey (trading a cough for botulism isn't exactly a good trade), but I kind of felt weird leaving the honey idea un-commented-on. I know Kim had it in mind when she posted, but I was wondering if it should be clarified. I didn't want to be stating the obvious, but after all, I never heard about the danger until my college nutrition class, which I find just a bit disturbing. It is just me, right? Everyone else already knows this?
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