Question 1

how likely is it for a vaccinated with a booster shot adult to get whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Odd wording: The material in the TdaP is not alive and cannot give anybody whooping cough. An adult who has not received a whooping cough booster within the past 10 years has the potential to get it if exposed (immunity has weakened).Adults can get a terrible chronic cough (3+months)  but are not terribly sick from it. The main worry comes if they pass it to a small infant who can die from it.

Question 2

are babies more likely to contract whooping cough if they have the vaccination?

Accepted Answer

Opposite: Immunized children are less likely to be infected with Pertussis than those not immunized.  Effective immunity is not usually established until the 4th vaccines, generally administered at 15 months of age.  The virus in the vaccine is not live, and cannot produce natural disease.

Question 3

how likely is it to get permanent lung damage from whooping cough as a teen?

Accepted Answer

: Whooping cough provides the greatest risk to infants under 1 year old. Their effort to cough out mucus plugs  at that age can cause brain damage/stroke/death. Older kids/teens have a different ratio of muscle mass/strength such that their cough is stronger &amp; less likely to produce the infant level of damage. A teen may get very sick/experience lung damage and other complications.

Question 4

i just found out i have whooping cough "pertussis" how did i get this and how can i ease the coughing?

Accepted Answer

TREAT PERTUSSIS: You probably contracted it from an adult coughing in public. 'whooping cough" is an infection caused by the bacteria, bordetella pertussis.  We have had several epidemics in idaho and the west coast lately. Thought of as a childhood illness it has 'made a come back' and now infects adults. The treatment is antibiotics. Prevention is the key: everyone over 19 should get a dtap shot! cough meds help.

Question 5

how can people catch the whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Droplet: Exposure to the nasal secretions or cough of an infected person can pass it to you.It is passed with droplet (inhaled particles) or direct inoculation (contaminated fingers to nose or mouth. You incubate it for quite a while before ever having recognized cough.Your source may  never have symptoms before they pass it to you.

Question 6

will clyndamdicyn work for whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Wrong antibiotic: The treatment for pertussis (whooping cough) is azithromycin, clarithromycin, erythromycin, or sometimes trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (bactrim), but not clindamycin.

Question 7

how long should whooping cough symptoms last?

Accepted Answer

100 days: Whooping cough is also known as the "100 day cough".  The symptoms may not last that long and towards the end the frequency and severity of the cough should lesson.  Once symptoms stop an routine viral illness may trigger a return of the cough but it is usually short lived and will return to normal within a week or two.

Question 8

how possible is a baby to get whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Exposure/no antibody: Many mothers delivering today had their last whooping cough vaccine as a kid and will not have any remaining antibody to pass to their newborn. Recently,OBs have started giving the TdaP to pregnant women to help avoid this.The vaccine is not effective if given before 6 wks, so the newest babies are vulnerable if exposed. This germ can pass from infected people before they realize they are ill.

Question 9

how long, on average, does whooping cough last?

Accepted Answer

2 to 8 weeks: Usually it only last two to eight weeks.

Question 10

what happens if whooping cough is left untreated?

Accepted Answer

Depends: In infancy it can lead to a progressive cough that is so bad the infant strokes out  and can die. It  is most dangerous to infants in the first 6 months. In adults, it just produces a chronic "100 days "cough. Kids Kids in the middle have variable effect.Untreated disease also leads to significant transfer to those within the persons contacts.Susceptable persons will get and pass disease.

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