Home Care for a Croupy Cough Without Stridor Humidifier. Dry air usually makes coughs worse. Keep your child's bedroom humid. Warm fluids for coughing spasms. You can give warm fluids to children over 4 months old.
Medicines are less helpful than mist or warm fluids.
Your child starts drooling or having a lot of trouble swallowing. The warm mist fails to clear up the stridor in 20 minutes. Your child starts acting very sick. Croup lasts more than 10 days. You have other questions or concerns.