Twelve years and seven kids ago, we had our first experience with croup. It came upon our then 17-month-old in the middle of the night. Of course. For the uninitiated, according to Dr. Google ...

Barking cough—that is how a croup infection is identified in children and in adults. Croup is a respiratory infection that is caused by a virus and is commonly associated with young children.

They saw a slight decrease in strep throat cases but an increase in croup. Dr. Joan Thode offered the following advice: “Wet coughs are due to air from the lungs passing through mucous.