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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Croup
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 12:09:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 12:09:18 1985
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>> Can anyone tell me more about croup? How serious can this be?
>> Does it usually re-occur?
>> I have to admit when the doctor told me to check her breathing
>> hourly during the night it scared the hell out of me.
>Every child in my family (all ten of us) had bouts of croup before we were
>two years old. Yes, it is very serious: the baby stops breathing. 

You must be thinking of something else.  Croup just means laryngitis
of infants.  They have a sore throat, a VERY bad cough, and some 
difficulty breathing.  It's just a very bad cold, essentially.

My kids both had it occasionally.  It wasn't much to worry about,
and the doctor never told me to check breathing.  (It wouldn't be
necessary, anyway--no one else in the house could sleep for the crying
and coughing.)  I would assume that you would want to make sure that
the baby didn't clog up completely.

The breathing stoppage for no apparent reason sounds more like some
kind of sleep disorder.

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                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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