Doctors at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth have treated nearly 300 children for RSV over the past two weeks. Those numbers are usually seen between December and January.
North Texas doctors say RSV, a virus that can severely sicken young children and older adults, is spreading faster and earlier this year.
That number in a year-to-year comparison quadruples the hospital’s diagnosed RSV cases for all of September 2021. "It’s a virus that causes typically cold-like symptoms in children and adults," explained Dr. Kimberly Giuliano with the Cleveland Clinic. "But in younger children, it can cause much more significant congestion and cough, high fevers, sometimes breathing and feeding difficulties and irritabilities."While some children with RSV require hospitalization, most do not.
Doctors are commending the family’s protocol and urging parents to consider the overwhelmed hospital staff.
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