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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • I had croup often as a kid. It was often enough that I knew, as a little 4 or 5 year old, to run a hot shower and sit on the edge in the middle of the night to help clear it up a little and cough up a bunch of nasty stuff.

    One night I woke up short of breathe again and started the shower but it didn’t get better. I woke my parents up and apparently my lips were blue. I was so dehydrated and my throat was so irritated that it started closing up.

    If this becomes a chronic thing as he gets older, use a steaming hot shower to act as a home remedy. It works similarly to the nebulizer.

    I believe they should be using normal saline 0.9% unless they see a reason to use an inhaled steroid. The steroid has an anti-inflammatory effect that reduces any possible swelling in the respiratory tract. Normal saline just helps loosen up the mucous stuck in the respiratory tract. A steamy shower would do the same once he’s a little older.

    I hope it all works out.