Mum Shares Heartbreaking Video of Five-Week-Old Daughter With Whooping Cough

A mother has shared a video of the horrors of a whooping cough suffered by her five-week-old baby girl.

Mum, Sandra Tee, from South West Sydney, was left heartbroken when her baby, Heidi, contracted this terrible disease, which started off as a slight cough. Heidi was diagnosed when she was only four weeks old.

 

 

 

In a video on Facebook, Heidi can be seen struggling because of whooping cough. Ms Tee wrote:

“This video may distress some people but I’m sharing to show just how scary and dangerous whooping cough is to babies who are too young to be vaccinated.

“This is my 5 week old baby during an episode where she chokes and stops breathing. Babies rely on herd immunity to keep them safe and unfortunately we cannot achieve that without high vaccination rates.”

Ms Tee then talked about the scary symptoms of whooping cough in babies.

“Whooping cough is not always a loud obvious cough. The scary symptom for babies is when they don’t cough but silently choke and turn blue/purple from lack of oxygen,” she wrote.

That is why, Ms Tee said that she and her husband are taking turns in caring for their baby girl. “If we weren’t in hospital and sitting watching our baby 24/7 the outcome would be fatal,” she wrote.

Ms Tee said that her baby contracted the dreadful disease from their three-year-old son as there was a major outbreak at his daycare in Macarthur in Sydney’s west. She says her son was vaccinated but caught a very mild form of the disease.

Since Heidi was too young to be vaccinated, she was vulnerable to the disease. Thankfully, Ms Tee said that the day care “did all the right things and even called us to tell us a child in our son’s class had been diagnosed”.  But she said it was no use. “As more and more kids picked it up and they couldn’t contain it.”

With this, Ms Tee has urged parents to be aware of the warning signs of the disease and to let people know how important vaccinations are. She wants everyone to see this video to understand the danger their selfish choices puts young babies like Heidi in.

“Please don’t ignore the warning signs…Please share this to educate more people on the importance of vaccinations.

“[They] need to think about the vulnerable people such as babies and immuno-compromised people. They can’t protect themselves – my baby girl can’t protect herself.

“They need to realise that their actions are directly causing these horrible diseases to continue to spread,” she said

Heidi is still in a very dangerous phase of the disease.

Source: Kidspot.com.au