When her youngest kids got RSV, DylanDreyerNBC and her husband were sometimes up all night listening to the boys breathe, she said: “It just breaks your heart — they’re so little… You just feel so helpless.”
, TODAY meteorologist Dylan Dreyer knows first-hand what many parents are going through.
Dylan Dryer shares a happy moment with her baby boy Russell, who is known as Rusty, after his birth in 2021.RSV, which stands for respiratory syncytial virus, is a common virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms, according to the. Most people recover in a week or two, but RSV can be serious, especially for some infants and young children, the agency noted.
“We took him to the emergency room because it was midnight and he was not breathing well, like really fast breathing, his heart was racing," Dylan said. “With Ollie, we can at least ask him: Does it hurt anywhere? Is it hard to breathe?” Dylan said. “Rusty, I was just more worried about him because of the wheezing."
To help her sons get through the illness at home, Dylan followed doctor’s advice to put them in a steam bath, make sure the humidifier was running, encourage them to drink lots of water to avoid getting dehydrated and give them Motrin to keep their fevers down.
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