Whooping Cough again? Please help, long...

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Ever since (now 4 this June) was right be for he turned 2, at

the tail end of a cold he would get this horrible cough, and I

thought 'well he just coughs weird'...however, this past end of

November/beginning of December, he had a cold, and then at the end,

had this HORRIBLE cough, which I 'thought' was Croup, mainly because

it was a weird cough I never heard before (we have been luck not to

have it in our family at all, knock on wood) AND because other than

at night, we rarely heard the cough, and he didnt 'seem' sick during

the day...

So when we took him into the doctor, she said it didnt seem like

croup to her, but she also didnt hear him cough the whole

appointment, go figure...so we left that appt with the instructions

that if he got a fever, or worse, to call her right away...

That night was a HORRIBLE night he was coughing and gasping and just

plain not able to sleep because of it...the next morning, although

very tired, he still didnt seem any sicker than the clear runny nose

that was the tail end of the cold he had (at this point he had been

sick with the cold for almost a week and a half, and then also been

coughing like this for about a week)...so I called the doc, and after

I left the message I searched online for 'weird sounding cough'...and

I heard soundbites of Croup...nope not it...then I heard several

Whooping Cough sound bites...TOTALLY IT!

When the doc called I explained the cough, she agreed it probably was

it, especially since the Whooping was so distinct, and go figure he

did it while on the phone so she got to hear it partially...she told

me that there is testing, however, since he was able to stay hydrated

and still eat, and didnt appear sick, other than end of the cold and

not sleeping well, she offered some medicine to help him sleep,

however, when we talked about it, we agreed to try to wait it out,

but if he got any sicker, ANY fever, ANY change we would call her

back and get him in RIGHT AWAY....he had one more night that was bad,

but not as bad as that night, and then it went away within a few more

nights...

Then now, he has it again..at first, the night before last, I thought

it was his acid reflux acting up, he only Whooped once or twice that

night, and sometimes it does sound like the gasping when you have

acid reflux and are laying down (if you have it you know what I

mean)...so we gave him his zantac, and he seemed fine, again other

than being at the tail end of a cold (no fever, just clear runny

nose)..he was just tired...then last night, a little worse, but I

didnt even cross my mind that it was Whooping again...well, today at

nap, it was horrible! He was whooping every 2 minutes (he doesnt even

nap unless he is sick anymore, so the nap in itself was typical of a

cold)...BUT he actually gasped for air after not breathing for a

second, I came running into our room (he napped in our bed and has

been sleeping with us for the last couple of nights when he was sick

and now will sleep with us until he is better, gosh, what if he was

in his own room and we couldnt hear him gasp like that...argh!...)

Anyway, Anyone know if you can have Whooping Cough more than once?

What if he hasnt recovered from the first 'whooping cough'...

Our DAN did lots of viral titers (at our first appt with him) which

happened to be after the first 'whooping cough'...and he DID do the

Pertusis (which is whooping cough, right?) titer on Ethan, but

somehow it was NOT run on , he told me it was an oversite since

we had both of them there for all of the bloodwork and it must just

not have gotten in the orders, so at our last appt (2 weeks ago), he

told me that we would run it on the next testing bloodwork and we

agreed there wasnt a reason to just do that by itself since we didnt

have any bloodwork done then...

SO, the BIGGER question of the day is, could this have actually

started long ago when I first heard this cough after a cold? Before

he was 2? He never got THIS bad before, and seems to get worse at

the end of each cold...SO, could really this be HIS viral issue he is

dealing with? Has it gone to his brain (from his Pertusis vaccine)

and then each time he gets a cold, it pokes is horrible head out?

His other viral titers were all high, High M, M, and R, High

Viracella (sp?), and High HHV6, however the DAN didnt give us Valtrex

for his HHV6 because they 'werent high enough to do that right away'

and alsohe said that since we did the High Dose Vitamin A treatment

in January, he 'wanted to wait for 3 months of high doses before we

started anything else'...my instinct says NO, mainly my Mom

intuition, and secondly, everything I have read and researched stated

the High Dose Vitamin A protocol that I did was correct, and I used

thee version in Children with Starving Brains (2 Days, MEGA dose of

Mycelized Vit A, 400,000 IU's of a dose, then a daily maintence dose

of 25,000 IU's...and then the high dose could be repeated in 6-9

months if needed) both boys did great on that, and the 2 day high

dose was the end of January, and although I think it kicked up more

yeast for them, we saw gains and no other side effects...the DAN (as

I posted almost 2 weeks ago now) said I did it WAY to high daily,

that he said go down to 12,000 IUs each day, then on the one month

marker from the first high dose, give them half (200,000 IU's) for

one day, then go to 6,000 IU's for 30 more days, then one high day of

100,000 IU's, then 30 more days at the daily 6,ooo IU's...THEN we

would talk about other viral treatments if nessacary...

I have never read anywhere about this Vit A protocol, and I didnt

debate it since really, he is the doctor, however, I still researched

it after the appt, and still havent found the same thing anywhere...

SO, my GUT tells me that he is on the wrong track, and my GUT is

telling me 's main issue is Whooping Cough/Pertusis, could I be

right?

ANY thoughts would be greatly appreciated, email me privately if you

need to, but I need some suggestions and help here...what would you

do? Our family doc is a real reasonable doctor and will listen if we

have concerns, and has accepted our biomedical journey and said will

work with us...

However, I am afraid if he gets worse, and I take him into the

hospital/doctor, I will be UNARMED with info and they will just push

unessacary medicine/antibiotics/tests on him...

I am NOT against antibiotics when NEEDED, but not for a cure-all...so

if ANYONE has ANY experience with this, please share with me, as

armed as I can be with doc's I want to be...so I can HELP him, not

hurt him..

THANKS!

Angie

Mom to Ethan, , and