An Alberta mother is sharing her story about RSV after her youngest child ended up in the hospital on oxygen after contracting the virus when she was just seven weeks old.
after her youngest child ended up in the hospital on oxygen after contracting the virus when she was just seven weeks old.
“You could see her whole stomach pulling in when she was trying to breathe. And her throat, you could see it was just struggling,” Bellavance recalled. “It was really scary.“There’s nothing worse than watching your baby struggle to breathe. It’s an awful experience.” “It was a long few days,” Bellavance said. “It took everything out of her. She was limp and didn’t have energy.
“When kids get RSV in the first few months of life there is a risk that they need to go to the hospital and that risk changes according to the season, but it can be as high as 10 per cent.”There are preventive measures people can take to try to avoid getting RSV, including good handwashing, masking and staying away from others when they’re sick.
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