Children’s hospitals in major U.S. cities have been reporting unusually high numbers of sick patients with respiratory illnesses caused by viruses other than the coronavirus.
Another explanation for why these winter respiratory viruses are affecting us more now, experts say, is not necessarily because they’ve changed but because we have less immunity against them.
Most children, Chang said, recover fully from these viruses with no long-term complications. However, parents of children with asthma orneed to be more cautious about these viruses, particularly with enterovirus D68, which can cause more severe disease. Infants and younger children, particularly if they were born premature or have a history of underlying congenital heart disease, are at increased risk of severe illness from RSV, the UTHealth Houston doctor explained.
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