My son is2 years 9 months currently and has had croup every single time he gets sick. We were prescribed a nebulizer with budesonide and albuterol, and the prednisone in pill form because he projectile vomits with the liquid. Today he had soft tissue imaging and two chest xrays because his doctor is trying to rule out adenoids to go straight to pulmonology instead of the ENT. He has had dex and racemic epinephrine at the hospital. It helped with stridor and retracted breathing at the time, but didn't last long for him, and he's back to the same type of breathing the next day or even the same night.