Charlotte Dawson has revealed her seven-month-old son Jude has been admitted to hospital for the second time with bronchitis.
The reality star, 31, described the past 24 hours as “scary and crazy” as her son struggled to breathe due to the lung infection.
Bronchiolitis is a common lung infection in young children and infants. It causes swelling and irritation in the airways of the lungs.
Taking to Instagram, Charlotte said: ‘Oh guys, it’s been another scary, crazy 24 hours, with little monkey, my little cherub.
‘We’re back in the hospital. It’s like déjà vu, isn’t it? With his bronchitis again.
‘But this time he has no oxygen. He can clearly fight it much better than when he was seven weeks old.
Charlotte Dawson has revealed her seven-month-old son Jude has been admitted to hospital for the second time with bronchitis
The reality star, 31, described the past 24 hours as ‘scary and crazy’ as her son struggled to breathe
‘He is now seven months old, he just has a lot of breasts, so we had to stay in hospital because of his breathing, his temperature was very high.
“It was really scary again, but so happy that he can fight it better than when he was a baby, but it’s just crazy that he has it again.”
Charlotte later took to Instagram to share a video of Jude, writing: ‘Thanks for all your messages, I love you all, thank God he’s on the mend… I just can’t believe he had it again, like this scary, but so glad we went to the hospital. I’m exhausted and have barely slept.’
Jude was only seven weeks old when he got bronchitis for the first time, which nearly killed him.
Charlotte had initially dismissed it as a cold, but she rushed him to hospital after realizing something was terribly wrong when he struggled to breathe and changed colour.
Jude was then put on oxygen for six days, with doctors telling her he ‘would have died’ if he had come in a day later.
The star said in an interview with Closer in December: ‘It was so scary. He wasn’t eating and his breathing slowed and he couldn’t catch his breath. Suddenly the color inside him changed, he really turned gray.
“They saw him and immediately said, ‘Thank God you brought him in now because he would have died if it had been 24 hours later.’ I was in total shock.
‘When he was hooked up to the machines it was heartbreaking. It made me realize what life is about and put everything into perspective. If something were to happen to Jude, I don’t know what I would have done. He is our little miracle.”
Charlotte later took to Instagram to share a video of Jude, writing: ‘Thanks for all your messages, love you all, thank God he is on the mend’
During the hospital stay in October, she talked about how grateful she was that she had trusted her instincts after an initial doctor turned them away because she thought it was just a cold.
Charlotte posted a photo of herself cradling her little one close to her chest and holding his hand.
She captioned the post: “Trust your motherly instincts. I may have been absolutely exhausted, but I knew something was wrong and it wasn’t.
‘Our beautiful boy has RSV bronchitis after he just said he had a cold and the doctors told him to go home and rest.
‘Thank God we got to hospital at the right time and the nurses and doctors were great, got him on oxygen straight away and we will be here until next week but we are in the right place and in safe hands.
‘Thank you for all your messages, I love you all, I just need to focus on him getting better now, so scary when they are so little and see him with all these tubes around him, I don’t want to let him go. ‘
According to the NHSBronchiolitis is caused by a viral infection, most commonly respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
RSV is very common and spreads easily through coughing and sneezing. Almost all children have had it by the time they are two.