Pregnancy and Crouping Cough

A pregnant women is much more susceptible to common cold than any other normal human beings. This is due to the fact that the immune system of pregnant women is slightly less effective at the time of pregnancy. This allows the body of a pregnant women to be more sensitive to various kinds of cold diseases than they would be otherwise.
Coughing can bring a pressure on the pregnant women’s stomach. It becomes very much imperative to take the required medications in order to stop the cough. Cough not only affects a pregnant women but it also has certain kind of effect on their baby’s health also. Parents often find barking cough as underiable and very hard to overlook. There is another type of cough known as crouping cough that mainly leads to health disorders among the children’s.

Crouping cough is a kind of respiratory problem mainly among the young children’s. It is also known by the name ‘Laryngotracheobronchitis’. It’s like a severe cough that can be found normally in the children of ages between three months and five year old. Attack of crouping cough in children’s can be rarely serious, and they usually get better with several days of rest and care. Crouping cough sounds like a seal barking. Croup generally occurs during the early winter and spring.

This kind of cough is caused is caused by the same viruses or bacteria that causes common cold. When the children’s are affected by this cough then their airways get inflamed and sound like a seal barking. The symptoms of crouping cough include hoarse voice, barking cough, mild fever, harsh noise when breathing in and difficulty in breathing. The child may also appear to be pale from not getting the enough oxygen. The symptoms of crouping cough often becomes severe at night and when is child is crying. These are enough signs that a child needs a immediate medical attention.
Most of the crouping cough cases can be treated at home. One of the best home remedy for crouping cough that the affected children’s or babies must be given a hot steam bath and a cool humidifier must be placed in the room while sleeping. Some of the experts also recommend sitting in a bathroom placing baby in hands with hot water running for ten minutes. Doing this activity usually alleviates breathing problems to an extent. If the fever is accompanied with cough then Tylenol is a good treatment.
The affected babies must immediately taken to the doctor if the condition becomes worse. The doctor will provide the appropriate suggestions and prescribed medications for your lonely baby.