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My 3 yr old was just diagnosed with bronchiolitis/ RSV on Mon. He started getting a fever and crabby/ sleepy on the previous Wed. The Dr. gave me a nebulizer for him and told me to keep his fever down. Sooo... here I am, more than a week after the initial onset and he doesn't seem better yet. The fevers come in the afternoon and evening, but they are by no means so high as they were over the weekend (103+). The nebulizer doesn't seem to help much at all and just irritates him. I'm tired of drugging him with Motrin to keep the fever down (seriously, it can't be good for him) and want to see him up and running around--and eating!--again. He has started coughing in the past two days and it's so bad at night that we are not getting any sleep.
Now my question... has anyone gone through this and can offer me hope? How long does this nasty thing last? What else can I do? All my web-searching has said, "It's a virus, wait it out..."
Help?
Now my question... has anyone gone through this and can offer me hope? How long does this nasty thing last? What else can I do? All my web-searching has said, "It's a virus, wait it out..."
