What was the old fashioned name for this?
What was the old fashioned name for this?
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I don’t know - maybe ‘croup’ which is a virus and is, by definition, “marked by episodes of difficult breathing and low-pitched cough resembling the bark of a seal.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/illnesses-ailments-diseases-history-names/croup
My nephew had RSV at about 2 & had to be hospitalized ... no cough that I recall, just couldn’t breathe.