“She never resumed normal breathing”: the serious consequences of bronchiolitis in babies

Between the chirps and the first bursts of laughter, a few groans escape.

Installed on her play mat, Isaure, soon to be six months old, has been struggling to breathe for a few weeks.

At the beginning of November, the little brunette with large dark gray eyes developed a first bronchiolitis, then a second, then a third... from which she was still not cured.

This winter, at the average rate of 7,000 emergency visits per week, up to 10,000 at the peak of the epidemic at the end of November, bronchiolitis affected nearly 50,000 infants.

Victims of a particularly virulent epidemic, pushing pediatric services to the brink, a third of them were even hospitalized in intensive care.

There would be as many, 15,000 babies, to develop more or less long-term sequelae.

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Very complicated first months of life for children so young.

During the second infectious episode, Isaure's condition deteriorated rapidly, raising fears of hospitalization.

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