Until recently, whooping cough was considered a childhood disease, but now you can observe its manifestation in people of adolescence and older. This disease was first described in 1538. Made it by a French doctor
Guillain de Bayon. Each disease has its own symptom. Whooping cough is no exception. At the end of the incubation period, which lasts from two to twenty-one days, the person shows signs of illness. The most characteristic of these is a barking, spasmodic cough.
Symptoms of the disease
Infection with whooping cough is possible only by airborne droplets from a sick person who serves as a source of infection. As soon as the first symptom appears, whooping cough may be accompanied by attacks during which the patient's face begins to turn blue or red. It is not excluded the appearance of nosebleeds or a small hemorrhage in the eyeballs. At the end of the attack, clear sputum is produced and in some cases vomiting.
As soon as whooping cough symptoms begin to show, treatment, prevention should be aimed atproviding the patient with maximum access to fresh air. Thanks to this, it is possible to reduce the number of attacks, which can be up to fifteen per day. As a rule, the accumulation of stuffy air in the room is the main cause of exacerbations. The duration of the disease is about thirty days, after which the cough, which is the main symptom, gradually begins to disappear. Whooping cough involves a fairly long recovery period, sometimes its duration reaches several months.
Measures to treat the disease
Since there is no specific treatment for this disease, it is desirable to eliminate or alleviate the symptom. Whooping cough can be dangerous. In children, it provokes the development of otitis media, inflammation of the lungs. For babies, the disease is dangerous with the onset of asphyxia.
To alleviate the patient's condition, he needs rest in a room with constant access to fresh air, the use of vitamins A and B, drinking plenty of water in the form of plain water and a small amount of fresh fruit juices.
In the treatment of a disease, the use of antibiotics is considered useless, except that with their help it is possible to prevent the development of the infection a second time and its further transmission. If a baby has a symptom, whooping cough has been diagnosed, then the mother is not recommended to stop breastfeeding, as this is a preventive measure that makes it possible to avoid the development of consequences.
Preventive measures against the development of the disease
Today, the preventive measure to avoid an outbreak of whooping cough is vaccination. However, this does not mean that the vaccinated child will not get sick in the future.
It happens that whooping cough occurs in vaccinated children. In this case, the symptoms are of a different nature, and the course of the disease is milder than that of a baby who has not been vaccinated. It should be noted that older people tolerate the disease much easier, they have it in the form of bronchitis, and only an analysis can reveal this disease.
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