Affected children are also exposed to complications such as pneumonia, partial collapse of lung tissue, weight loss, hernia, seizures, brain damage (probably due to oxygen deficit).
Oboleli otroci so izpostavljeni tudi zapletom, kot so pljučnica, delni kolaps pljučnega tkiva, hujšanje, hernija, krči, poškodbe možganov (najverjetneje zaradi pomanjkanja kisika).