Cigarette Smoke Allergies and Croup

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I have a friend that has a grandson that comes and visits every so often. Every time he leaves he goes home and comes down with the croup. The Dr. can not come up with a solution. The child is two years old. I was wondering if the child was allergic to cigarette smoke (which he has not been diagnosed with)...could that trigger a form of croup. We would really like to know so we can help out the little one.

Thanks for any info		K_Adolph
3/22/2006
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Hello. I don't know the answer, but he sure sounds like my little boy. When my son would go to his grandparents house (nana was a smoker) he would come home and have the croup. He would be croupy eventhough she never smoked around him. I guess it was just in the house. His nana quit smoking last year and now my son can go to the grandparents and has no problems with the croup. Never did know for sure if the smoke was what caused him to get sick, but I always thought that was a possibility. I have never been told he is allergic to the smoke, just think he might be.

my3reasons
3/24/2006
 K_Adolph
well it sounds likely. I have asthma and if I am in a smoking facility or my parents house (they smoke like crazy) I wake up the next day congested in my chest!!! best wishes to the lil one!!

jifnif
3/27/2006
 K_Adolph
My daughter is 21months old. We have a smoke free home and other than one place we go it's always smoke free. That one place unfortunatly is grandpa and grandma's. What do you do? They do not smoke when she is there, but smoke alot otherwise and the house is full of smoke and of course they smell of smoke. Grandma lights candles, I think she thinks it helps. Anyway. Since birth Payton has has several reactions to it. Our Dr asked us if we smoked and we told him no. He asked if she was exposed to it and then we discused it. He had no ideas of what to do since we could not avoid going to her grandparents house we are a very close family. Now Payton has a nebulicer and when she has reactions she is usually very sick for one whole day and drags into not feeling great for a few days. The last time she was up all night and could not breathe very well at all, wheezy and coughing, eyes running, nose running. The next day she wouldn't move off my or my husband's lap and the breathing broke my heart. I finnaly told my mom what I thought was happening. To my sadness she didn't agree. She is in denial. The Dr said they can't diagnos anything this early. I don't know what to do. I refuse to have my baby sick. I also refuse for her not to have her grandparents in her life. But this is the only thing Cigarette Smoke that makes her ill. I'm lost.

payton'smommy
4/4/2006
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I'm sure you are right. The candles are only making things worse. Try doing family get-togethers at your house, or somewhere else like a restaraunt or park. You may hurt your parent's feelings at first, but they'll get over it. They just need to see how sick she gets after being around them. Most smokers don't know how bad they smell. Everything they own smells. Spendnig hours in a smoker's house, is like spending the night in a fire damaged building. It could make anybody sick, but especially a child with tiny lungs.

myproblem
4/5/2006
 payton'smommy
Well I think my parents finally got it. We had to have them watch Payton one night and my mom opened the windows all day and aired out the house and it didn't smell like smoke at all when we got there. Payton did not get sick for the first time and they have been very good about it since. I guess telling them was hard but worth it.

payton'smommy
4/21/2006
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