Rapid, shallow breathing with fever/dehydration?

[Scoobi6]

My 15 mo dd has some sort of infection with fever. She ended up in hospital the other day because her breathing went very rapid, shallow and "gaspy" for 7-8 hours. Over 60 breaths per minute, scared the pants off us! She was checked for chest infection, including chest X-ray, ears, throat, urine but all came back negative. Eventually her breathing came back to normal, although she is still feverish and listless.

The doctors said her rapid breathing was caused either by fever, or by dehydration. But she has had much worse fevers in the past, and is still feverish now, and her breathing rate is fine.

I was wondering if anyone else's dcs have had this?

Hi yes my DD had this, it was scary we ended up in hospital too but like your dd it was due to a fever. It was a virus type thing, she had a very high temperature and got a bit dehydrated with it too. Hope she gets well soon.

Bronchiolitis can cause this - triggered by common cold virus RSV . Hopefully she 'll be over it now.

thanks for replies. We are steadily working our way through the long list of scary childhood illnesses. That's another one to tick off then!