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My 5 nearly 6yr old son has had a cough for 2.5 weeks, he saw his doc about a week ago for his yrly check up and they checked his ears, everything looked good. He hadn't had any symptoms, including a fever and no one else caught his cough, he seemed like his normal self. But last night he couldn't sleep at all, he would fall asleep and wake up 10-15mins later crying. It was a rough night so I kept him home, got him an appointment again. He still doesn't have a fever but clearly he isn't alright. Doctors wanted to check his ears again. One was slightly pink/red so maybe an ear infection though he hasn't been holding his ears. More likely than not he has a sinus infection according to the docs. 😠how the heck can I tell whats wrong when he doesn't show symptoms or can't tell me what's wrong!? I never considered a sinus infection, I used to get them a ton as a little kid too. He's feeling much better already but dang it, I hate when he's hurting. It's the worst when the kids are sick.
Allergies can trigger Respiratory infections. It can be a respiratory infection if he has phelm with no fever or other symptoms especially if he’s had it for so long. Asthma attacks can also show as a persistent cough.
If he’s having issues with breathing at night I would watch closely how his chest and stomach move. If there’s vomiting or loss of appetite those are indicators of respiratory issues too. Waking up though from not breathing correctly like waking up crying or gasping for air is a really big problem and that should be addressed by the doctor. And you can record how he breaths and coughs to show the doctor. My son would never do it in front of the doctors so I started recording to show them how his chest moves and how he would gasp for air and wake up crying. So they knew what I was trying to explain to them.
My son from birth had respiratory issues and the doctors didn’t believe me. It wasn’t until he was 3 that he had a severe asthma attack and ended up in the emergency department that they took his breathing serious. And it was the same with his allergies. After his first trip to the hospital for allergies he was given an allergy test and then was prescribed an epipen.
My son is 8 now and he has two inhalers, epipen and a nebulizer.
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If your son has food sensitivity and is developing allergies it can cause those sleep issues also. Those were the first signs my son started showing before we knew how bad his food allergies were.
His prescriptions would help short term but if he’s being exposed to something he’s allergic to it’s not going to get rid of the problem.
It takes time to figure out. Wishing you guys the best! I know it can be hard but your doing the right thing by continuing to investigate and try to figure it out. Sometimes that’s the best we can do until we figure out the main problem.