During the first year of the baby's life, you have to take good care of his health, since he is very prone to suffer from infectious respiratory diseases, one of the most important is bronchiolitis. This disease especially affects premature babies, can leave sequelae and is also very contagious.
The bronchitis It is an infection of the bronchial tubes and the entire respiratory tract, usually caused by a virus (respiratory syncytial virus) and spread by contact with the secretions of someone who is infected and has touched the baby, his toys or other objects, which Then the child touches and becomes infected by touching his eyes or nose. For this reason, it sometimes extends between families, nurseries or hospital rooms.
The virus is always accompanied by the cold, usually appears between the months of November and February. Its symptoms are a slight cold in most adults and children, but in infants, these viruses can develop easily and lead to bronchiolitis. This infection inflames the bronchial tubes, preventing the air from entering correctly and, above all, from leaving. It gives us the appearance that he has asthma. Your symptoms start with a cold in the highways, a light cough and sometimes a fever.
When a couple of days pass, you see that in the baby the cough increases and breathing accelerates. It is very serious until six months and can leave sequelae to children under three months, premature babies usually need even hospitalization.
One tip is that if the baby suffers from the symptoms of a cold and has not yet reached three months, or you see that he has a fever accompanied by respiratory distress more than three days in a row, take him as soon as possible to the pediatrician or to the hospital emergency department .
