How To Know How Your Doctor Will Treat Your Child's Croup If It's Serious

How will my doctor treat my child's croup if it is a serious problem?

There are some other medications the doctors in the emergency room may use, such as steroids called Decadron, or nebulised treatments of medications that may help open up the upper airway, but that's for a doctor to decide. The most important thing is: stay calm. I know it's very scary. Go into the steamed up bathroom for a couple minutes, go outside in the cold air, and then re-evaluate. The other thing with croup is that it commonly causes extremely high fevers: one-o-three to one-0-five fevers. So, just like any other virus with fever, treat the fever with Tylenol or Motrin. Usually, it doesn't last more than 72 hours, and if anything is prolonged or you're concerned, talk to your paediatrician.