Whooping cough affects people of all ages and adults are unlikely to become very sick but, as we have seen, it can be deadly for babies and young children. Throughout the whole of 2023, the UKHSA said there were 858 recorded cases of whooping cough. five babies in England diedafter bein...
With high rates of whooping cough in young babies, is the NHS doing enough to make maternal vaccination accessible? Emma Wilkinson reports So far in 2024 England has had 10000 laboratory confirmed cases of whooping cough (pertussis), and 10 infants have died from the infection.1 While a rise...
Spongia Tosta– excellent remedy for whooping cough; dryness of all passages; cough dry, barking croupy like a saw driven through a pine board… Corallium Rubrum– violent spasmodic cough, whooping cough; a very rapid cough, the attacks follows so closely as to almost run in to eac...
Whooping cough symptoms and treatment options explained, amid a rise in cases in England and a decline in the uptake of vaccine in pregnant women and children.
Pregnant women have been advised to get vaccinated against whooping cough after nine young babies died as cases of the illness surged in England. Whooping cough, which affects the lungs and breathing tubes and spreads very easily, according to the NHS, is responsible...
Why is Whooping Cough So Serious? The pertussis bacteria releases a toxin that damages the tiny hairs in the airway. Those tiny hairs help move mucous out of the lungs. Without them it is much harder to expel mucous. This makes the coughing much more dramatic. The mucous that pools in th...
作者: None 摘要: Examines the importance of whooping-cough vaccines in children in Great Britain. Adverse reactions of children following vaccination; Occurrence of neurological damage; Benefits of protective immunization. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.6116.806 被引量: 1 年份: 1978 收...