I hope you can find another ped, or at least an Urgent Care? If you don't want
to do the ER route.

Doesn't your doctor have an emergency # to use?

In the meantime, this may help:

Go in the bathroom with him and take a book, and close the door and
run the shower until all the hot water is gone. Sit in there about 1/2 hr
letting him breathe the concentrated steam. You don't have to put him
in the steam, or get wet. Just sit on a chair in there. If you have wallpaper in
there, prepare to say good-bye to it. (ours all fell off! )

Sometimes a small bit of mucous gets stuck in a bronchiole and triggers
excessive coughing. If the cough sounds like a bark of a dog or seal, you
should get medical help ASAP...go to the ER. This is croup and sometimes it
can swell the throat, and become a breathing emergency.
The steam however, can take care of much of the extreme cough reflex
temporarily, in non-emergency situations.

Some severe coughing in small children is due to asthma. So it is best
to find an urgent care, at least and perhaps have a breathing treatment if necessary.


Best of luck...hope this resolves soon for the little guy!