Warning This footage may be distressing to some viewers.
Sydney mum, Sandra Tee has shared a video of her baby daughter struggling to breathe after contracting whooping cough.
In an upsetting video on Facebook that Sandra posted on Monday, five-week-old Heidi can be seen gasping for air while wearing a tiny oxygen mask.
The baby girl contracted the disease after an outbreak of whooping cough at her older brother’s day care centre.
“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,” the Sydney mum wrote. “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.”
Sandra wants this heartbreaking footage to be shared across cyberspace, in order to help bring to light the importance of vaccinations and the impact on little ones lives.
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