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May 17, 2008, 2:30 am
Flag as Inappropriate Simplyme  

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Children and RSV 

My 12 year old daughter had RSV as a baby and spent a week in the Hospital being monitored I've heard tell that RSV never goes away that it is a virus that hibernates in the lungs. Is this true? I only ask because it seems she has always been prone to colds and now at 12 she has been diagnosed with Asthma. 

May 17, 2008, 4:01 pm
Flag as Inappropriate english_roses says...

My grandson contracted RSV at 8 days old and was hospitalised twice for it, with a collapsed lung. He's in a study to see if it correlates with developing asthma down the road. I don't think he has asthma now though. 

May 17, 2008, 4:49 pm
Flag as Inappropriate Dogget says...

I have never heard anything like that-seems a little odd to me. Sure, it's a virus but it's one that the body fights and gets rid of. I know some live on, like chicken pox, but I never heard that of RSV. 

May 17, 2008, 9:51 pm
Flag as Inappropriate faithib says...

My 11 year old had RSV at 8 months and again at 2 1/2. Because he was premature it did damage to his lungs.
This was before they had the vaccine for it and I so wish that had been available for us!
I really hate RSV and well, that is another story.
I hadn't heard that it stays in your lungs and does other things. He did catch it 3 different times but we were never told those times were related. 

May 17, 2008, 10:02 pm
Flag as Inappropriate faithib says...

Christie, I used to take that generic too but it just didn't help much.
I feel much better on the thyrolar.
Do some research, before I did I had no idea there were meds out there for T3 and T4. You can take them in separate pills or a pill like thyrolar can hit them both. 

May 18, 2008, 4:17 pm
Flag as Inappropriate DanaS says...

There is a big difference between catching a new strain of the virus and it living on in the body. A big difference too between re-infection with the same strain, and it living on.

And for what it's worth, the RSV shot is an immune globulin, not a vaccine. That's why it has to be given monthly. 

May 19, 2008, 1:07 am
Flag as Inappropriate Simplyme says...

I was not even aware that there was a shot for RSV. My 4 month old just got over a very nasty upper respiratory thing. When she started coming down with it I was sure it was going to be RSV but luckily it wasn't took her in a few times to be tubed and suctioned and they said it would run it's course. I was very thankful for that.