How many cases of the whooping cough were reported?

Whooping cough can affect people of any age. Before vaccines were widely available, the disease was most common in infants and young children. Now that most children are immunized before enteri...

are you a nursing student making a care plan?? I remember from nursing school that one of the main problems with pertussis is a thin membrane that can completely obstruct the airway, especially in...

congestion(phlegm) backs up into the eustachian tube (a tube that links the pharynx to the middle ear) and inner ear collecting and creating an infection...

Any milk products...cheese, ice cream, etc. They irritate and cause more phlegm struggled with in the cough.

I hate to know that anyone have that. I found you some sites that will help you with treatments, symptoms, & how dangerous it is.. www.Healthline.com www.whoopingcough.net www.nlm.nih.g...

Macrolide antibiotics - erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin - reduce the infectivity of the patient, but once whooping cough is manifest, the damage to the pulmonary tissue has occurred, and...

Whooping cough also known as Pertussis is infectious and is mainly caused by a bacterium Bordetella Pertussis. Although vaccines are given to infants to prevent the infection there are still more ...

Here is a quote from the website below...pertussis is whooping cough's medical name. "The pertussis vaccine is estimated to be 63% to 94% effective in the DPT shot and 59% to 90% effec...