Life saving device for infants with RSV lies right next to your baby's crib - WISH TV Indianapolis, IN

by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.

Posted: Oct 26, 2022 / 07:48 PM EST / Updated: Oct 26, 2022 / 07:49 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Babies endure successful galore ways erstwhile they person Respiratory syncytial virus. Symptoms see fever, coughing and antithetic fatigue. But what’s astir unsafe and tin pb to decease if not addressed instantly is erstwhile they are struggling to breath. 

News 8 spoke with Dr. John Christenson, subordinate aesculapian manager of corruption prevention astatine Riley Children’s Health, who talks astir thing parents astir apt person laying close adjacent to their baby’s crib that tin beryllium beingness redeeming erstwhile they are gasping for air.

“Keep successful caput a batch of young infants clog up their noses with a batch of congestion,” helium said. “So you privation to marque definite parents suction their chemoreceptor precise good and if that breathing trouble inactive persists that’s erstwhile they request to beryllium taken to the exigency room.”

Christenson adds determination is simply a carnal motion you’ll privation to wage attraction to that indicates your child’s chemoreceptor is stuffed and the discharge needs to beryllium suctioned with a nasal syringe.

He describes it arsenic a signifier of exaggerated chemoreceptor flaring wherever their nostrils unfastened unusually wide and past rapidly shut.