Folks, please be careful and mindful of small babies and children at the minute. This RSV is rampant and so contagious. Currently sitting with my 5 week old in an RSV ward after being admitted through one of Dante’s Circle of Hell in Letterkenny A&E last night.

Parents, please read this and don’t fuck about and get your baby in to get checked if you think something is up.

https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/rsv/

by PishedAsAFart

11 comments

  2. It’s so scary. Still remember how it felt when mine had it ten years ago, he was only a few weeks old. Take care and I hope they are better soon xx

  3. RSV is scary. But the younger ones bounce back fairly quickly. Spent a fair bit of time sleeping on a mat in the hospital room when my kids were younger. Not fun times at all. Best if luck OP!!

  4. My kid gets one spray of the steroid inhaler every night. We were going into the hospital with her due to coughing once a month. Awful dose.

  5. The FDA recently granted approval to a vaccine that will be administered to pregnant people to protect their babies from RSV through the first six months of life. It’s a single dose shot from Pfizer called ABRYSVO

  7. A horrible scary time for you and the kid but rest assured when you are seen too you will get amazing care,can’t speak highly enough of our nurses after going through this myself with my own 3,it’s a very common virus so it’s very rarely ever very serious and you’ll be amazed at the how the kids bounce back after what seems like not been able to breath normally for days,hope the kids better soon no doubt they will be.

  8. Hope the little one is doing better.

    Mind yourself and your partner too, you both need to be 100%, it’s very easy to focus on your little one and neglect eating or getting some kip.

    I’ve a cousin who’s a doc, talking to her made me terrified of RSV. I have a 4 month old at home, so I feel what you’re feeling at the moment.

    The HSE recommend to isolate children under 3 months at the moment due to the risk – mainly RSV, but also Covid and flu.

  9. Hoping your little one makes a very quick recovery. Our baby had RSV at 5 weeks old in January. Scariest time of my life!
    5 days in hospital on high flow O2 and nasogastric tube, it knocked her (and the whole family)side ways!
    Sending positive thoughts.
    Keep us updated on how your little one goes!

  11. My two cents..
    Had a baby born in 2020. (My third)
    Eleven months later she was ill and the usual stuff wasn’t cutting the mustard.
    We called temple street and explained the situation down the phone. We thought that with a young child showing signs of a respiratory illness and covid still being a thing, we would be told to stay away.
    However, they told us to come straight in and gave us for want of a better term, open arms.

    Within minutes they were all over it and as it turns out, RSV was the culprit.
    They explained that RSV was a family of standard issue seasonal viruses but for children born during lock down, they were proving difficult to shake. Baby was put into a sort of icu and eventually sent to a less severe, sort of stand down ward.
    This ward was full of kids from five months to five years all battling ‘standard issue seasonal viruses’.

    Whilst in the hospital, the staff explained that their swift response was all down to that fact that they saw it coming. Lock down was going to present issues like these and these events had already unfolded in the UK. Furthermore, they were critical that the powers that be, were warned that this would happen and nothing was done to prepare.

    This article was published the same week…
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/only-12-hospital-beds-left-for-children-and-no-intensive-care-beds-free-warns-hse-1.4708002

    For us it gave us alot of perspective as to how the system works.
    It’s such a minefield.

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