Have a warm shower running with the bathroom door closed. If your child continues to have stridor despite the mist treatment, call 911. Dry air usually makes coughs worse. Keep your child s bedroom humidified. Warm fluids for coughing spasms.
Medicines are less helpful than mist or warm fluids.
Give to 1 teaspoon of corn syrup to thin secretions. 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.