Parents were attacked after bringing a child with a temperature of 104 degrees on the plane

A family has come under fire online for taking their baby, who had a 104-degree fever, on a long-haul flight.

Alina and her husband were giddy with excitement about their trip to Thailand.

They had been planning tirelessly to take their son, who recently turned one, on an overseas holiday and the day had finally arrived.

However, just before they left for their eight-hour flight, their son developed a high fever.

They took him on the flight anyway.

Recounting the experience on social media, Alina said her son’s temperature rose to around 104 degrees.

Their little son’s condition was so bad that the parents were considering canceling their entire trip.

“My husband and I even wanted to cancel the flight,” she confessed in the video, which has received about 1.4 million views.

But once they realized how much they would lose if they missed the flight, they changed their minds. “Our tickets would have been wasted and the trip that cost us $3,000 would have been wasted,” the mother wrote.

In the clip, the parents were seen walking around their son, hugging the poor toddler as he sobbed uncontrollably.

Fortunately, the parents “managed to bring the temperature down,” but they weren’t convinced their son would be quiet for the rest of the trip.

“We were so worried about how the baby would feel on an eight-hour flight,” she continued, walking the baby up and down the corridors of the airport, trying to reassure him.

Despite their child running a 104-degree fever, the parents decided they would get their son on the plane again. “A plus of this flight was that the flight was at night, and the child could sleep and recover,” the mother wrote.

However, their dream of having a perfectly sleeping baby on their long flight was just a fantasy because their son would not settle down for the rest of the flight.

After all, he had a high fever; it seemed impossible that it would fit in an airplane flying anywhere from 30,000 to 42,000 feet above the ground.

“The flight turned out to be difficult,” Alina confessed. “The baby kept waking up and crying.”

In the middle of the night, their son’s fever returned, which forced the parents to “lower the temperature again” and left them “very worried” about their son’s health.

Their baby’s temperature also affected the parents, who complained of feeling “squeezed like a lemon” as they tried to keep his temperature down. “We took turns caring for the baby so that each of us would sleep,” she said.

In a later video, the parents defended their choice to take their son on the flight despite his high fever and blamed his teething, not the illness.

“Our child was not sick, he was teething and therefore had a fever,” she said. “If our child had been sick, we would have canceled everything… I consider myself a wonderful mother.”

She explained that when she and her husband boarded the plane, their son “didn’t have a fever,” but before they took off, they “notified the check-in counter that our baby was teething and had a fever.”

According to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, while teething can cause a fever in babies and toddlers, it will usually reach a maximum of 38 degrees; anything higher requires emergency medical attention.

Online, parents were criticized for even considering taking their sick child on a plane, especially a long overnight flight.

“It’s ok, don’t worry about getting someone else sick on that flight,” read one sarcastic comment. “This is extremely selfish, you are terrible for doing this to him and others.”

“Ahhh, so this is why my son is always sick after flying,” said another. “We were so worried so we took him on a flight instead of the doctor,” wrote a third.

“I was in the same situation,” said one parent. “I lost all the bookings, but who cares, my daughter always and forever comes first, regardless of the amount of money!”

“Thrips come and go; Your baby’s health is priceless!” read a comment. “Forty degrees is hospitalization! Not a flight to Thailand!”

However, not everyone was so prejudiced, with many parents expressing their sympathies to first-time parents.

“I know you did what felt best, and that’s all that matters,” one person commented. “We don’t know how much it has burdened you.”

“You know what’s best for your child,” someone called out. “Everybody’s going to say things. But only you will know when you’re in that situation.”

“Everyone is a first-time parent,” defended another. “This was a lesson learned. The health of the baby is of great importance. No holiday is more important than this. I hope he is doing well now.”