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Should i take my one year old to the dr if he has a fever, is breathing kind of fast and hard and is coughing?

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Dr. Tracy Lovell answered

Please seek: Please seek emergency care immediately as it sounds based on your description that he is in respiratory distress. Hope all goes well.

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Answered 5/2/2016

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