![]() But if they don't and they get more anxious, they'll have more stridor. The one thing you want to do is try and keep your child calm, because most children settle down with these treatments. If it's not cold outside, you can actually hold your child in front of an open freezer door and have them take a few deep breaths in. If it's cold outside, take your child outdoors. A humidifier, not a hot vaporizer, but a cool mist humidifier also will help with getting the swelling down. So how can you treat stridor? One of the best things to do when you're at home is get the shower all steamed up and get your child in the bathroom, because warm, moist air seems to work best to relax the vocal cords and break the stridor. It can go back and forth from being mild to severe, but the worst symptoms are seen in kids under the age of 3, and usually we don't see it after the age of 8 when your child's airway is bigger and can allow for more swelling before the airway gets too constricted. We do hear it during the daytime, but it's almost always at night, and for some reason it likes the times between 11:00 pm and 1:00 am. How Long Does Croup Last?Ĭroup usually lasts for a couple of days, and it generally gets worse at night. It's really hard to push air through something that narrow, and that's when you hear the bark when they're trying to take a deep breath in and cough that air out very forcefully. It's like the space between the vocal cords went from being that of the diameter of a straw to that of being the diameter of a coffee stirrer. When your child has croup, the hoarseness and the bark are actually caused by the opening of the vocal cords becoming more narrow. Croup is usually part of a cold, and there's a bunch of viruses going around right now, all of which can cause the croupy cough. With severe croup, breathing actually becomes difficult. Stridor is a scary sound, because they're sitting there and they're coughing, and then all of a sudden when they take a big breath, you hear and that's cause for alarm. Sometimes they have a vibrating, raspy sound when they breathe in called stridor. They can also have a hoarse voice leading up to it. It actually sounds like your child is a seal with how they're barking. It causes a tight, low pitched, barking cough. So what is croup? Croup is actually a viral infection of the vocal cords and the trachea, which is the windpipe. Gellner: That barking cough you hear is called croup, a sound that can cause a lot of concern and rightfully so. ![]() You are now entering the "Healthy Kids Zone" with Dr. What is it, and what can you do to help your child?Īnnouncer: Keep your kids healthy and happy. Gellner: So you hear a barking cough from your child's room at 1:00 am.
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