10 Month Old Baby with Bad Cough

Well, both my girls have been using albuterol for coughs since about that age. I do find that once you start using it initially, it seems to get worse because it's loosening things up in the chest. BUT after about 2-3 times, they have always gotten better. Keep in mind that albuterol has a tendency to make little ones hyper so don't be alarmed. I would say if you don't see relief after a few times, call the ped again. Other than that, there's really nothing. Maybe just Tylenol if he's uncomfortable.

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I normally don't give over the counter or prescribed remedies to my kids with a cough, but Baby Vicks works wonders. After nighttime bath rub and massage baby's chest, back, legs, feet, and arms with Baby Vicks and make sure he's in comfy covered PJ's and socks. Continue each evening until you see better results. Also, a cold humidifier works along with the rub. Suction as much mucus out, my little ones dislike this but you have to. Give him plenty of liquids. Coughs normally run it's course for about 2-4 weeks, but your baby will definitly sleep better. This also works on colds. I have a 17, 12, 2, and 1 year old and have experienced many coughs/colds/flu's and my kids love this remedy which helps them fall fast asleep.

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i just went through this with my 11 month old son. He had a cough for a while and the doctor also gave him albuterol. It then became bronchitis and then pneumonia. I would watch for signs that his chest isn't caving in when he breaths and I would ask his doctor if they have a suction machine that they could use on him to get all the mucus out.

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My ped. recommended Delsym when my boys were coughing. She said it was ok to give to them in addition to the Albuterol. My kids might have been 1 already though? When their coughs got really bad, they had to do a breathing treatment in the DR office. It was torture. To hopefully avoid having to do that again, I bought a cold mist humidifier and turned it on at night all night in their room for about a 4-6 days. It seemed to really help.

thats not true. my daughter was the same way and was coughing for 2 months it took her dr a while to determine that she had asthma because it took her 3 1/2 months to actually here her wheeze. if they just gave you an inhaler you baby may not be getting enough into their lungs. my daughter ended up being put on a nebulizer with albuteral and pulmicort (which is a prevenative that they dont really like to use on babies because its strong) which takes a week or so to really kick in. she did get worse in that week and was put on a 3 day oral steroid which finally cleared her up fully. with the pulmicort my daughter has to get that everyday sick or not to keep her from having asthma symptoms. i gradually weened her off the albuterol. but if i think she is getting sick i have to go right back to giving albuterol to her every 4 hours. what i did was i kept taking her back every week until we got a medication that worked. anyways i hope my information was helpful to you!

My peiatrician told me to give my 11 month old 1/4 teaspoon of robitussin cough. It works really well. Albuterol inhaler's don't really do much but spead up they're little hearts.