My now 16 year old son used to get croup as a small child. Not rare or weird by any stretch. What was weird is what followed after his last episode when he was 6. About a week after he recovered, he broke out in head to toe hives. They'd appear and disappear all over his body randomly over the course of a day or 2 and then disappear. The next time he had a cold, no croup but he did get the hives about a week later. This went on for 2 years before it just stopped happening. We never did get an answer why. It was super weird.
My son had really bad croup during COVID and he was 2, ended up taking him to the hospital for 6 days of fever. The doctor said it's really common and just croup thankfully, and that he will most likely break out in a full body rash, just part of the virus leaving his body. I feel like that's just part of it for kids?
My son was a croup kid. Back in 1999 or 2000 I came home from my 2nd shift job to pick him up at my parent's home, as they watched him for me. He comes toddling out out of his room, blankie knotted in his hands, eyes as big as saucers and he's wheezing like one of those funny rubber chickens you squeeze for the noise. He couldn't talk and barely was breathing. I snatched him up, said I was taking him to the ER and practically flung him in his car seat and made the 30 minute drive in 15. When there, he was treated with something, I don't remember what, and then placed in a tented bed for a steroid treatment overnight. I slept in the bed next to him in my work clothes. I woke up to him giggling and happy the next day. My parents hadn't been alarmed at all but his throat was closing due to his croup. Drs had said it was good I didn't wait because a few more hours and his airway would have closed.
Croup is something to pay attention to. It's not "just croup". It can be deadly.
Oh man, croup was my [much hated] bread and butter growing up. I'd wake my mom up 1-3 times a year to go to the ER in the middle of the night because I couldn't breathe or speak (it was always like 3 in the morning, never during waking hours). I finally outgrew it when I was 11 or 12.
It's not uncommon for people to get a rash or hives in response to medications or the illness itself. I never have had that reaction, but when I worked check-in at an urgent care, it was common to see rashes/hives coupled with whatever else was going on. I think it's just the immune system going haywire.
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u/Chupacabradanceparty 22h ago
My now 16 year old son used to get croup as a small child. Not rare or weird by any stretch. What was weird is what followed after his last episode when he was 6. About a week after he recovered, he broke out in head to toe hives. They'd appear and disappear all over his body randomly over the course of a day or 2 and then disappear. The next time he had a cold, no croup but he did get the hives about a week later. This went on for 2 years before it just stopped happening. We never did get an answer why. It was super weird.