Question 1

what are the tests for bronchitis and whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Finding the germs: Whooping cough can be diagnosed by  finding the germ in the body and/or by measuring body's response to the germ. However, those tests may only useful for certain times after the infection starts, so they may not help. There is not a specific test for bronchitis, although when someone is coughing up mucus for a long time, testing it in the lab to see what germs are there can help guide treatment.

Question 2

how can you distinguish between bronchitis, pneumonia and whooping cough?

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Whooping cough: has a distinct cough. Bronchitis and pneumonia may be difficult to tell apart but many times bronchitis on an X-ray will not show whereas pneumonia should.

Question 3

how do you calm the severity of the cough from whooping cough.?

Accepted Answer

Doctor can check: A cough that persists can be checked by a primary care doctor, even if the patient was already diagnosed with whooping cough. If there is wheezing or lung "tightness", then asthma meds can help. If there is increased phlegm or fevers, the doctor may continue or add antibiotics. If all seems resolving, the residual cough may be treated with the usual otc and prescription cough suppressants.

Question 4

does anise treat whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Not at all: Whooping cough/pertussis is a very serious bacterial infection treated with specific antibiotics.

Question 5

why is whooping cough a bacterium?

Accepted Answer

B. Pertussis: Bortadella pertussis causes whooping cough. Currently it is recommended to be immunized against pertussis in the pediatric population and once after age 19 (http://www.Cdc.Gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/downloads/adult/adult-schedule.Pdf)  whooping cough is treated with antibiotics and measures to support breathing such as oxygen and breathing treatments.

Question 6

what is the cure for whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Zithromax: First.See your primary care provider to be sure of the proper diagnosis.  Then be sure to take prescription exactly as prescribed.

Question 7

how do you breathe with whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Normal unless coughi: With whooping cough, when the patient is not coughing the breathing is perfectly normal.  The cough is spasmodic and continues until there is very little air left in the lungs and when the patient then breathes in the whooping noise is made.

Question 8

is whooping cough and the croup the same?

Accepted Answer

No: Croup is triggered by a group of respiratory viruses and is usually benign. Whooping cough is triggered by a bacteria that infects the lungs and triggers a violent cough. Babies can cough hard enough to have a stroke and die.

Question 9

can the whooping cough be fatal to children?

Accepted Answer

Whooping cough: Can result in death in infants especially in the first few months of life.

Question 10

what's the scientific name for whooping cough?

Accepted Answer

Pertussis...: Whooping cough is pertussis in the scientific, medical world. It is caused by the bordetella pertussis organism.

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