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I just found out my husbands sisters baby has RSV. We where going to visit his mom this weekend but I don’t want to go since they babysit his sisters kids and I’m afraid Alyssa will get infected with this RSV. Danny thinks I’m being Norma Bates about it but I’m NOT going to expose her to anything that could make her sick. I don’t know anything about RSV so I was wondering if anyone on here could give me some advice about it and if I should be as worried as I am.
purpledoggy wrote:I just found out my husbands sisters baby has RSV. We where going to visit his mom this weekend but I don’t want to go since they babysit his sisters kids and I’m afraid Alyssa will get infected with this RSV. Danny thinks I’m being Norma Bates about it but I’m NOT going to expose her to anything that could make her sick. I don’t know anything about RSV so I was wondering if anyone on here could give me some advice about it and if I should be as worried as I am.
DO NOT EXPOSE HER! Don’t even take a chance. In Utah at the moment it’s a BIG killer; and it doesn’t just kill infants and children, it kills anybody with compromised lung function. We dealt with this with the twins when they were super little (couple weeks old) and it scared the holy crap out of us! 😯 I wouldn’t chance it if you paid me too….
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I told my husband flat out that I was not going to take Alyssa over his parents and he said I was being too dramatic. So he called transplant at Hopkins and they told him to stay far away from his niece and his mothers house for at least a month. I dont care how mad he would have gotten there is no way I was going over there.
Hopefully he listens to his doctor’s advice. RSV is something he should be concerend about for his own health having had a lung transplant recently.
purpledoggy wrote:I told my husband flat out that I was not going to take Alyssa over his parents and he said I was being too dramatic. So he called transplant at Hopkins and they told him to stay far away from his niece and his mothers house for at least a month. I dont care how mad he would have gotten there is no way I was going over there.
With your husband’s lung problems and a small infant…you absolutely do not want to be around an infant with RSV. For healthy adults and older kids, it is nothing worse than a cold. But for compromised adults and infants it can kill!!!!
Respiratory Syncytial Virus
and in healthy people it just acts like a cold, but with infants and children up to about age 17 and anyone with a compromised respiritory system it kills.
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There is an immunoglobin called synagis that costs several thousand dollars per shot, that is given monthly to prevent preemies and seriously ill infants, from contracting RSV.
RSV is very common in the winter and causes nasal congestion and cold symptoms. In a child over age two, it usually isn’t a big deal. You just treat the nasal congestion.
In compromised patients it can cause wheezing, bronchitis and even pneumonia and it can be very serious. Once you have it, there is only one drug, Ribavirin that can combat it.
The Ribavirin is pretty nasty stuff and can make the nurses who give it ill.
Long term effects of RSV can cause lung remodeling in children and it can take years to fully recover, many have prolonged asthmatic symptoms. Some even have asthma after a bad bout.
Hope this gives more info. I was at work earlier and didn’t have time for a full answer.
If there’s RSV Don’t take either of your Babies there!!! Both obviously are at risk, and I’m glad that he has also gotten this advice from his Dr. so that he doesn’t do what they all do and try to think you’re just overcautious, and been reading/watching too much. Hell even my Male has done this with me towards Khym, but I did win out(I was going to take him in with or with out him) and the end result was emergency Nero-surgery!!! 😯 😯 And he knew/knows that when my “Little Birds” are telling me some thing’s up, it is.
He calls me Norma Bates because I’m always taking Alyssa’s temp with the tympanic thermometer (it goes in your ear). She always feels warm to me but never has a fever. One time I took it and got a 99.1 reading so I went right for the rectal which was fine. Tympanic’s can be pretty inaccurate. Every time he pesters me about taking temps I make it a point to take his too since he has pneumonia right now. That makes him twice as mad 😆
purpledoggy wrote:Every time he pesters me about taking temps I make it a point to take his too since he has pneumonia right now. That makes him twice as mad 😆
😈 😈 😈 *Giggle* 😈 😈 😈
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