A mother-of-four is warning others against kissing their newborns during the flu season after her own son barely survived a severe respiratory infection.
Ariana DiGrigorio’s son Antonio caught the flu when he was still an infant.
For two months, they could not figure out why the symptoms persisted. Antonio was then diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Ariana shared a heart-wrenching photo of son in the hospital with all manner of supportive and monitoring tubes and wires coming from his tiny body on Facebook, urging parents to keep their babies away from relatives’ kisses, for the infants’ good.
RSV is a common viral infection but for the elderly, those with compromised immune systems and especially babies, the virus can be dangerous.
Most instances of pneumonia and bronchitis in infants are triggered by RSV.
Antonio pulled through, but it was a terrifying time for the DiGrigorio family. Antonio finally pulled through.
‘Don’t be the reason a baby is hospitalized (or dead) because the baby was “just so cute I had to kiss her!”‘ Ariana wrote in a Facebook post that was shared over 2,500 times.
Leave a Reply