2Y0M 13W2D ひどい風邪 Terrible cold

1ヶ月前から軽い風邪を引いていたタカラ。ここ10日程、咳を伴う別の風邪（？）をもらった。大晦日辺りから悪化して夜中に咳で起きてしまう。今日の明け方は熱があったのでCalpolを上げた。午前中にGPへ連れて行く。呼吸の仕方と肺の音は正常なので今の所他の問題はなさそう。お風呂にお湯を張って、10分から15分ぐらい蒸気を吸わせるとよいらしい。3ヶ月才では薬は何も飲めない。

食欲は心なし減っている感じがするが、全く飲まないわけではないし、相変わらずニコニコしているので大丈夫なのだろう。ただ、咳はかなりひどい。痰が絡まった咳を連続でするから、最後には呼吸が一瞬できなくなって苦しそうなのだ。そして、くしゃみするたびに鼻水はダラーっと出てくる。見ていて痛々しい。母乳育児なら風邪を引いてもあまりひどくならないと何処かで読んだが本当なのか。だいたい、母乳なら尚更、生後半年はお母さんからもらった免疫で病気知らずというのはどうなったの？コットの頭の下にタオルを入れて少し傾斜を付けて寝かせてみることにした。少しは楽になるといいけれども。

Takara has a cold since a month ago. About 10 days ago, he must have caught another one. This time with lots of coughs. Since the new years eve, it's got worse. He wakes up in the middle of the night by coughing. He had a slight temperature this morning and we gave him some Calpol. At GP, he was checked his breathing and chest + lungs. Everything seemed to be ok. We can't give any medicine to 3 months old baby, though. The doctor told me to let Takara breath in some moisture by putting hot water in the bath tub and staying in the bathroom for about 10 to 15 minutes.

Takara may have lost a bit of appetite. But he still takes some and he smiles a lot as usual. So he should be fine. But his coughs are terrible. He has quite mucusy chesty coughs, often continuously. And in the end of the series of coughs, he sometimes becomes a bit of choking. His runny nose is also very bad. Watching him suffering from a bad cold is a really pain for me. I've read somewhere that breastfed babies only get mild cold if they happen to get one. I hope so. We've tried putting a couple of towels under his head of his cot to give a bit of angle to lie down. It might help him from coughing during sleep.