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Kosair Childrens Hospital is warning parents about the dangers of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

RSV is one of the top causes for hospitalizations for children under the age of 5.

For older people, its just a severe cold, but for infants its a respiratory infection that can kill.

Many of the doctors, all of the doctors in our practice and their nurse practitioners have admitted patients to the hospital and treated plenty of patients for RSV, said Dr. Claire Ellen Cowley.

RSV attacks in infants lower respiratory system causing severe breathing problems. It also causes a debilitating cough many doctors said sounds like a severe smokers cough. Theres fever, wheezing and sometimes vomiting.

Infants and toddlers who are 35 weeks or younger or have congenital heart conditions, are at risk. Like Harrison Withers, who was first thought to have had asthma,

"With his heart condition they told us to look and make sure his hands and feet were not turning blue. Well, Tuesday night after he had had his breathing treatment, his hands and feet had turned blue, said Amanda Withers.

If left untreated, a buildup of fluid quickly cuts off the airways.

"They're real congested and a lot of mucous is built up in their lungs, said Andrew Withers.

"It worried me because he was just lying there and you could just see his ribs, his stomach was pulling in and you could just see his ribs, he was working so hard, said Amanda Withers.

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