Croup What you need to know I remember when my daughter Kerri was about 6 years old, both her and her older brother, Shaun, ...

Whooping cough vaccines are available to help prevent the disease or make its course milder. To prevent the spread of croup, ...

Croup is a common virus that attacks the respiratory track of young kids. This causes them to develop a familiar cough called ...

1. A baby or child with croup will have difficulty breathing and a short, barking cough. Their cough may also sound like crowing or whistling. In severe attacks, the baby or child may use muscles ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing cases of hand, foot, and mouth and walking pneumonia. WellSpan Pediatric ...

"When that happens, there's that characteristic barking cough," said Dr. Buddy Creech, a pediatric infectious disease expert who's identified "croup-like presentations" in children who've tested ...

MercyOne and Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines have both seen an increase in pediatric walking pneumonia infections.

barking cough. The authors of this study compared IM and oral administration of dexamethasone in children with moderate-to-severe croup. In a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial ...

"We had an eventful Sunday afternoon/evening with a little ride in the ambulance downtown to Vandy ER," Kasi Rosa Wicks wrote ...

Croup is an illness with a barking cough that mainly affects children. Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, causes a violent cough with a whooping sound. The cough itself from pneumonia can ...

They saw a slight decrease in strep throat cases but an increase in croup. Dr ... causing the child to automatically cough it away. This ‘air cannon’ shoots air through the glob of mucous ...