A mom posted a terrifying video of her baby with whooping cough struggling to stay alive.
Australian mom Sandra Tanrikulu has two children, and her youngest baby is only a few weeks old. She posted a video to Facebook showing her baby forced to stay in the hospital combatting a terrible case of whooping cough.
While the video is alarming, Sandra explains she posted it to make parents aware of the dangerous repercussions of not vaccinating your children.
“The scary symptom for babies is when they don’t cough but silently choke and turn blue/purple from lack of oxygen. If we weren’t in hospital and sitting watching our baby 24/7 the outcome would be fatal,” Sandra 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,” Sandra explained.”
Sandra’s video is going viral and she responded to commenters and said, “The head pediatrician wanted us to film it to show people how the cough isn’t always the worst/major symptom in babies. It’s the silent episodes which mean we are watching her 24/7 and very tired. Lucky my husband is amazing and we have been taking shifts.”
Sandra and her husband are up all day and night watching their baby to make sure she’s safe. While no one likes to be told that they should vaccinate their child, Sandra says, “Babies rely on herd immunity to keep them safe and unfortunately we cannot achieve that without high vaccination rates.”
She hopes her plea will bring awareness to parents to vaccinate their children.
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Mom Posts Terrifying Video Of Her Baby With Whooping Cough is an article from: LifeDaily