Advice needed. Neighbor child with serious dry cough
My 6 and 9 year old sons sometimes play with a 9 year old girl who lives up the street. Destiny, her name is.
Apparently her dad is not in the picture, her mom barely is and she's mainly raised (along with her 6 year old brother) by her grandma who is confined to a wheelchair. I met Destiny a year ago when we moved to this neighborhood and she befriended my 6 year old boy. I rarely see her though, she and my kids hang out sometimes, but not a lot.
Anyway, about 2 months ago I was in our local dollarama, and I noticed she had a horrid dry cough.
http://www.hivvids.com/10455/Diagnosing_a_Cough.html
^^The first cough in that video is the one I mean. And she has it worse than that.
I thought, wow, she's sick. And thought she'd be taken care of by her caretaker(s?)
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Today my 9 year old commented on her awful cough. And he's used to my smokers cough, so it takes something for him to comment on someone else's cough. I looked up info on this after he mentioned this to me and it can be a sign of very serious illness. Especially since it has persisted for so long.
What do I do?
Maybe it is being addressed, I've never met her mom or grandmom. If I approach them and they are addressing it I'll seriously offend them for suggesting they aren't. If they aren't addressing it they'll be even more angry.
I just need some advice on the right way to approach this.