See: More children need medical help for RSV than previously known
More than 2 million children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are seen in hospitals, emergency rooms and doctors' offices in the United States every year -- many more than doctors know. In fact, only 3 percent of children with RSV in an outpatient setting actually receive a diagnosis of RSV infection.
After a couple of emergency room visits for RSV I developed this strategy to stop wheezing: make sure the child naps every day, even if that means walking for four hours and 20 miles; and lower any fever as soon as possible as I have a hunch the body's fever response is involved in constricting the esophageal lining leading to the wheezing which leads to low oxygen levels in the blood.
