Any other symptoms? Because lots of cough can easily equal puke. Especially in kids.

Alternately, if there are several other hard-to-miss symptoms, puking while coughing can also equal whooping cough. Which this is NOT.

Windsparrow, I took no offense at your post; my experience has been similar to yours. I realize that generalizations are unfair, but so is running across a disproportionate percentage of unhelpful doctors. So let's celebrate the good ones, and encourage the others along paths to medical enlightenment. If such encouragement requires assertiveness on one's own behalf in the face of the some medical practicioners' predisposition to omniscience, well. It is what it is.

It is probably just stomach muscles spasming from all the coughing--I do it myself if I'm not careful. Lowering the temperature in her room overnight might help. I get my worst bouts when I'm in an overheated room.

Aimee, Ellie puked twice last night and hasn't felt great today but her only other symptom has been a cough. Maybe something is going around?

Headline I would like to see being literally true:

Jousting begins ahead of health-care summit -Washington Post

Thinking about it, I hadn't heard her cough all day except for the ten minutes leading up to the vomiting. And now she's totally passed out next to me with no sound from her. I think we're going to set up the steamer in her room to get the air a little moist and see how that works tomorrow night.

~ma for Em and Aims.

Poor Em. Aims, a dry, barking cough can sometimes be Croup. It's not major serious but you'd know if the cough sticks around. She probably just barfed from the coughing.

Good luck.

She was so funny b/c Joe brought me the ice cream her and I bought on our way home from the movies and she said, in that weary, very sad, just threw up, liitle girl voice, "Mommy, you shouldn't eat that - it might make you frow up, too." Cutie pie girl.

Ooof. So cute.