What is RSV? Symptoms affecting babies and toddlers are similar to the common cold, but trouble breathing and high fevers can bring kids to the ER.
Alissa Werner has been spending the last couple days at Rush University Medical Center with her youngest child.
"We knew it was viral, so antibiotics were not going to help," Alissa Werner said. "So just supportive care, get her on oxygen and keep her comfortable." "We are very busy with RSV," said Dr. Laura Meltzer, a pediatric hospitalist at Rush University Medical Center. "It's an unusually early time in the season to see so many children sick."
"The kids that would have been affected early in life, now might not have been affected until a few years older because they were wearing a mask or not going to daycare when they were young," explained Dr. Taylor Heald-Sargent, an infectious disease specialist at Lurie Children's Hospital.
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