Unfortunately sucking out the nose is going to be the best thing for them. The most important thing that's going to help your child is sucking out their nose, and we all know how much they love that. If your child does well with them, with the albuterol, then we can sometimes get a breathing treatment machine sent home with you and the medication for you. Albuterol is also the medication that's in the fast-acting inhalers for asthma patients. If you have a family history of asthma or your child has had a history of wheezing in the past, before getting RSV, and we hear wheezes going along with those crackles, we might them a treatment of a breathing treatment called albuterol. So if there's no real good medicine to treat RSV, how do I help my child? Well, there are some cases when we do need to give some medicine. RSV illnesses are usually lasting seven to 21 days, but again, it's worst in the first 3 to five days. And oftentimes if they are hospitalized, they are sent home with oxygen, and then in the office we can help you wean your baby off of the oxygen. Babies under the age of one quite often will need some extra oxygen and even may be treated in the hospital if their bronchiolitis is so bad that their oxygen level is under 90 percent, and your doctor will be checking your baby's oxygen if you bring them in for these symptoms. RSV Treatmentīecause RSV is a virus, and not a bacteria, antibiotics, unfortunately, will not help treat RSV. We can often take samples of mucus from the nose and test it for the virus to see if it is RSV and then we know how to be a little bit more aggressive with treating the viral illness your baby has, if it is positive. Days three through five of an RSV illness are the worst that's when they're the most symptomatic and again we can usually hear the crackles in the lungs. Quite often, pediatricians are able to get a good idea if your child has RSV or not just based on the symptoms. When your pediatrician listens to your baby's lungs, if they have RSV and bronchiolitis, it actually sounds like Rice Krispies in the lungs it's just all crackly. They're breathing so hard that you can actually see them sucking in air, and you can see indentations underneath their rib cage and in between their ribs, where they're really just trying to suck in as much air as possible. So in bronchiolitis, the virus attacks the small airways of the lungs, and it can cause cough, wheezing, fast breathing, and trouble breathing where they are doing what's called retractions. In kids under the age of two, especially premature babies, we worry about something called bronchiolitis. You can get some redness of the eyes, coughing, sore, scratchy throat. The difference is the runny nose is going to be significantly mucusy, copious amounts of mucus. Symptoms of RSV are usually common cold symptoms: cough, runny nose. But for those under two years old, and especially preemie babies, this can be very severe. And, normally, for kids over the age of two and adults, it's just like a bad cold. RSV stands for respiratory syncytial virus. So RSV is a common virus that usually affects the nose, throat, and lungs. What is RSV and how can I protect my baby? That's today's topic.
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