Today: Karl Stefanovic says daughter Harper, two, was rushed to hospital

Right now present host Karl Stefanovic has revealed he was left ‘panicked’ and ‘feeling responsible’ after daughter Harper, two, was rushed to hospital on Wednesday.

Talking on air Friday, the presenter, 47, defined his daughter had ‘the sniffles and a small cough’ on Wednesday, which led to him and spouse Jasmine, 38, taking her to the GP.

However her situation shortly deteriorated, together with her temperature reaching a harmful 40°C and her coronary heart charge racing to 200bpm.

Right now present host Karl Stefanovic has revealed he was left ‘panicked’ and ‘feeling responsible’ after daughter Harper, two, was rushed to hospital on Wednesday

She was then rushed to hospital in an ambulance and identified with a respiratory syncytial virus, that are widespread in kids within the winter months.

‘Two days in the past, my daughter Harper had what’s she had so many occasions this yr, a sniffle and a small cough,’ he advised viewers.

‘Inside a couple of hours we gave her Nurofen and Panadol like suggested and put her down for a sleep.

‘When she awoke she was respiration actually shortly, wheezing, and her coronary heart charge and temperature have been by way of the roof.’

Karl and spouse Jasmine welcomed Harper in 2020, their first little one collectively. Karl shares three older kids together with his ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn: River, 15, Willow, 16, and Jackson, 22

He went on to elucidate that issues shortly went from dangerous to worse, with little Harper finally ending up in hospital.

‘So we took her to our GP who was good.

‘However inside a few minutes her situation deteriorated, her temperature was greater than 40 and her coronary heart beat was climbing over 200bpm, we have been actually frightened.’

The star defined how the ‘unbelievable’ GP shortly stabilised her with a nebuliser and referred to as an ambulance.

Right now present host Karl Stefanovic, 47, was each inch the doting daddy as he took in Vivid on a yacht with spouse Jasmine and daughters Willow and Harper earlier this month

‘From the ambulance, the ambulance officers have been unbelievable,’ he went on.

‘At North Shore Hospital extra docs labored on her and she or he was admitted after a number of hours to emergency.

‘They did an unbelievable job and the hospital workers have been unbelievable.’

The presenter mentioned he was revealing the scary ordeal to point out solidarity with the ‘hundreds of oldsters in related conditions’.

Karl additionally spoke to Affiliate Professor Margie Danchin (pictured) a paediatrician at Royal Kids’s Hospital, who defined that oldsters are ‘actually coping with it’ in the meanwhile.

‘We have been fortunate, and we’re fortunate, that it wasn’t extra severe. However it is a shared scenario that’s why we’re doing it,’ Stefanovic mentioned.

‘The factor is you simply panic, when docs begin shifting quick you panic.

‘We felt responsible, we must always have taken her straight to the hospital, we took her to the GP first.’

Karl additionally spoke to Affiliate Professor Margie Danchin, a paediatrician at Royal Kids’s Hospital, who defined that oldsters are ‘actually coping with it’ in the meanwhile.

‘That is sadly the same story.

‘After the final two years with Covid being so scary, we’ve seen an enormous enhance in viral respiratory circumstances.

‘Within the final month or so we’ve seen a rise in RSVs – mother and father are actually coping with it.

‘We don’t need mother and father going to the emergency division both,’ she added.

‘Our emergency departments are actually overwhelmed.’

She mentioned that if a toddler reveals elevated respiration, blueness across the lips, or in the event that they’re listless and pale, the mother or father ought to take them to the emergency division.

Completely happy occasions: Jasmine nestled right into a rugged up Harper earlier than the boat journey on the harbour earlier this month

Karl and spouse Jasmine welcomed Harper in 2020, their first little one collectively. Karl shares three older kids together with his ex-wife Cassandra Thorburn: River, 15, Willow, 16, and Jackson, 22.

Karl met the mannequin turned shoe designer at a ship occasion in Sydney simply months after his separation from his first spouse in 2016.

The couple married on the One&Solely Palmilla resort in Mexico in December 2018

In an interview with Stellar journal in October 2020, Jasmine described Karl’s parenting model as ‘very hands-on’, including that he ‘helps quite a bit’

The warning indicators of RSV

Respiratory syncytial virus (generally known as RSV) causes an an infection referred to as Bronchiolitis. The an infection is unfold between folks by coughing and sneezing.

The an infection begins with chilly signs (runny nostril, cough, sneezing and fever). Warning indicators embody:

* Quick or laboured respiration

* Wheezing sound when respiration out

* Bother feeding (for infants, it’s because they solely breathe by way of their nostril).

Signs are sometimes worse at night time. Sickness often begins to enhance after two to 3 days.

An infection could also be worse and final for longer in very younger kids (below three months), untimely infants or kids with lung or coronary heart issues.

No medication might be taken to remedy bronchiolitis.

Kids’s paracetamol (in advisable doses) could assist your little one really feel extra snug if they’ve a fever.

Infants with a extreme an infection could also be admitted to hospital. In hospital, remedy could embody oxygen and fluids. Fluids are often given by way of a nasogastric tube (a tube that goes into the nostril).

Be sure that your little one is getting sufficient fluids. Smaller feeds given extra usually could assist.

Salt water resolution out there from pharmacies (e.g. Fess) dropped or sprayed in every nostril earlier than feeding could assist clear the nostril.

Preserve your little one away from cigarette smoke.

Forestall the unfold of an infection by holding your little one away from different young children particularly for the primary few days of sickness.

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