CRMS and Culture results

My 1 year old son has a CRMS dx. He just had a clinic appointment a week and a half ago which resulted in a second negative sweat. Our pulm said at the appt that he appears to be healthy - clear lungs etc. She called yesterday to tell me that his culture results came back positive for staph, Chryseobacterium Indologenes, and Acinetobacter Baumannii but that because he is appearing healthy and has a negative sweat that they are nothing to be concerned about. Today he started having a running nose. He's 12.5 months so my first thought was teething. But as the night has progressed he has been seeming to be having some respiratory symptoms. It's 1230 am and I'm listening to (and watching him) him on the monitor. He is still asleep but I am hearing some wheezing. I guess my question is really related to his culture in combination with the wheezing. His culture was 1.5 weeks ago, at which time he had NO cough, no wheezing, nothing of any concern. At a week and a half post culture, he is now appearing to have some symptoms of a respiratory illness. Because he is CRMS and not CF, it's more complicated - they do not treat him as if he as CF, they treat him as if he is healthy unless proven otherwise. My question is really just what would you think about a child presenting with respiratory symptoms 1.5 weeks post a positive culture? Should I notify his clinic? Or is this most likely just a case of bad luck? In all honesty it sounds like early croup - he's had 3 bouts of croup s...
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