Hello doctor, I have an 11-month-old baby who weighs 10.7 kg and is 78 cm. He has never had any health issues. Today, he started coughing productively, out of the blue. A little in the morning and evening and more in the night. There is a lot of mucus breaking when he coughs, I can hear it. No fever, no other symptoms of a cold. He ate and drank normally and was reasonably active though a bit slower than usual, then I put him to bed. He now wakes up from time to time, coughing productively and crying, then goes back to sleep. I do not see any mucus but I can only hear it. He had a cold seven months ago with a runny nose and a red throat that went to his chest eventually and had a similar productive cough though less heavy than this one. My husband is currently sick with a common cold which started recently. Despite him wearing a mask when around the baby, it is not impossible that the baby was exposed to it. My question is, is this an emergency? Do I need to wake the baby up and take him to an ER? I already have an appointment with his doctor tomorrow morning. Can this be a common cold with just the chest involvement and no other symptoms like a runny nose? Or can it be pneumonia or something really bad, as long as there is no fever, just the rich, wet cough? Basically, can it wait until tomorrow or is the baby in danger? He is now sleeping but did wake up twice crying and coughing in the last two hours.
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