- Location
- South Wales UK
Cough
- Thread starter Still Farming
- Start date
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Lots of the persistent cough in Manitoba too. Kids have been coughing and spluttering for weeks. just get used to it it’s the new norm
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Spent £50 yesterday on potions and tablets.
Olbas Pastilles are pretty good, Covonia cough mixture, liquorice pastilles, vit C tablets, Echinacea drops etc.
Olbas Pastilles are pretty good, Covonia cough mixture, liquorice pastilles, vit C tablets, Echinacea drops etc.
IIRC, China has a new virus doing the rounds that attacks children
What’s behind China’s mysterious wave of childhood pneumonia?
Scientists expected a surge in respiratory disease, but what is happening in China is unusual.
www.nature.com
More bat flu?
- Location
- Northumberland
My 17 year old son admitted to hospital this afternoon with pneumonia.Blood Sats very low,so he has Oxygen through a tube in his nose.5 day course of antibiotics havent worked.Nearly all of his college mates had flu/cough symptoms before they finished for Christmas. RVI in Newcastle very busy. He was in a chair in a corridor for a good few hours before he got a bed.IIRC, China has a new virus doing the rounds that attacks children
What’s behind China’s mysterious wave of childhood pneumonia?
Scientists expected a surge in respiratory disease, but what is happening in China is unusual.
More bat flu?
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
He will pick up a bit after 4 or 5 days oxygen. Our 8 year old was in the hospital for 10 days and is slowly getting better but very dull.
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Hope he's feeling more comfortable, @jendan . Mycoplasma pneumonia is probably the culprit, reported across the world. It's opportunistic as a secondary infection. Covid has hammered a lot of the under 18s. There's no consensus in recommendations for a covid booster jab for them, so where they aren't being invited for a yearly jab, they're getting repeated infections of different variants of SARS-CoV2. I have a nephew who had his second bout of covid in 12 months last month. Not like him at all to be off school, but he was a week off and still feeling fragile when he went back. His last jab was in 2021.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Hope all are responding and better soon.
is this contagious ? ive had a cough for over 3 weeks now.
Yes its contagious, If you are fully vacc'd you should be alright, if not then see a doc.
As someone said earlier this seems to be hammering the youngsters - probably due to vac status, nasty & serious if it gets a proper hold
- Location
- East Sussex
Mrs is on steroids long term and just got in touch with the doc for some AB’s
Tamar
Member
..........and some razor blades and shaving gel from the chemists !?!
I hope the AB work for her.
In bed Christmas Eve all day and on the couch Christmas Day. Had a cough for 2 or 3 weeks before Christmas and had an antibiotic but it didn’t sort it. Was at doctors yesterday and he said I’ve bronchitis. Feel week as water. Not had covid never had any jabs. They wouldn’t make any difference anyway. It’s brutal
paul&mandy
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- Location
- surrey/west sussex
I've been ill for over a month. Started hellish runny nose. Then had this cough for 2 weeks now. Caugh so hard I've pulled a rib nearly sick etc. Got no go at all. Just knackered. COVID test come back negative.
Still coughing here. Over a month now. Antibiotics have helped a little. Wife and son now have it. Absolute shocker. This has to be another version of COVID.
Keep testing, it can suddenly change 🫣
Been near two months with it here. O2 Sat below 90%. Can't walk from the house to the cattle sheds without stopping to catch breath and hack. Steroids and inhalers are helping to get through the day. Totally lethargic, knackered tired, but not sleeping well (presumably because of the low o2 sat)
I've farmers lung and my youngest (9yo) has asthma, neither of us can shift whatever it is causing the bronchial irritation
Wife and other two kids (high school age) have recovered from the "cold", but left with tickley dry cough
Don't know how long it stays infectious? I felt too knackered to go out over the festivities, but wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy if I had
My sympathy goes out to those similarly suffering
I've farmers lung and my youngest (9yo) has asthma, neither of us can shift whatever it is causing the bronchial irritation
Wife and other two kids (high school age) have recovered from the "cold", but left with tickley dry cough
Don't know how long it stays infectious? I felt too knackered to go out over the festivities, but wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy if I had
My sympathy goes out to those similarly suffering
How many of the folk here suffering this cough aren’t vaccinated?