It's official. Your doctor confirmed that the cough you've been dealing with is more than just a cold. It's whooping cough, also called pertussis. Now it's time to treat it and learn how to make sure you don't give it to others. Antibiotics Your doctor will likely suggest an antibi...
Whooping Cough Affects Adults Too; Infectious Disease Experts Say Many Cases Go Undiagnosed and Lead to Infections in ChildrenKathleen Fackelmann
Adults and teenagers with whooping cough will have the long coughing fits with the high-pitched whooping sound at the end, mostly if they haven't been vaccinated. If they've been vaccinated against whooping cough, their symptoms should be milder. Whooping Cough Diagnosis To make a diagnosis, y...
As a child, you were probably vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, measles, mumps, and rubella. Adult booster doses are required for some of these same vaccines. You may also be eligible for other recommended vaccines for protection against other diseases. W...
At presentation, children with whooping cough were more likely than others to have whooping (odds ratio 2.85, 95% confidence interval 1.39 to 5.82), vomiting (4.35, 2.04 to 9.25), and sputum production (2.39, 1.14 to 5.02). Children with whooping cough were also more likely to still be ...
(CBS/AP) All U.S. adults should get the whooping cough vaccine, a federal advisory panel voted Wednesday. PICTURES: 12 myths and facts about vaccines The panel wants to expand its recommendation to include all those age 65 and older who haven't gotten a whooping cough shot as an adult...
The adults affected were commonly parents of young children with whooping cough. Nearly half the adults were in the 20-29 age group and 72-3 of these were females, compared with 51 7 , in the total group (including children). Only eight adults, their ages ranging from 26 to 33, said ...
Bolon says whooping cough can be treated with antibiotics and could potentially be gone in five to 14 days when proper action is taken but that a pertussis test is not always ordered and a proper diagnosis is not always made. Before the problem strikes, she says, there is an easy remedy....
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is an infectious disease that is caused by Bordetella pertussis, affects all age groups and is vaccine preventable. Recently, an increase in reported cases of pertussis in adolescents and adults has been noted in many countries despite high immunisation rates in childre...
Moreover, individuals with non-communicable diseases, such as COPD or chronic heart failure, who experience coughing, are even less likely to receive a pertussis diagnosis. In these cases, the cough might be attributed to an exacerbation of the pre-existing condition, leading to an absence of ...