do i need to get vaccinated against whooping cough?

Question

How often do I need to get the whooping cough vaccination?

Answer 1

Yes!: Especially if you're around young children. If you're a healthy middle aged adult with pertussis (whooping cough) you might have a cough for a few weeks, but you'll live. If you pass whooping cough to a newborn.. They can die. Do a google search for "baby with pertussis" and watch some videos. It's scary and sad. Get your tdap (tetanus and pertussis) booster today!

Answer 2

In unvaccinated...: In unvaccinated children, death and brain hemorrhage are likely possibilities (they cough so hard, they can exhaust their breathing muscles or burst a blood vessel in the brain). Even without complications, constant cough for 3 months is a highly unpleasant experience.

Answer 3

Seizures, apnea: Besides the terrible cough, whooping cough (in young babies) can cause cessation of breathing (apnea), seizures, and death.

Answer 4

Can't catch breath: When a child has whooping cough he starts to cough and can't stop. As he continues to cough he loses his breath and when he finally stops coughing he takes a deep breath very fast. Since his throat is very small, the large amount of air moving very fast through the small airway creates a "whoop".

Answer 5

A sudden breath: Whooping cough is a potentially fatal but vaccine preventable illness, that is unfortuntunately becoming more commeon due to lower vaccination rates. The whoop is a very alarming sound, that occurs when the person is suddenly able to take a deep breath after a severe coughing fit, also known as a paroxysm. Older patients may actually feel as if they are suffocating during an attack.

Answer 6

Inhaling strongly: After a coughing and coughing, a child will try to catch his breath by breathing in strongly. This forceful inhalation makes a whooping sound. Babies under 6 months may not whoop even if they have pertussis infection.

Answer 7

Hypoxia: The 'whoop' in whooping cough is a forceful inhalation of air after a prolonged paroxysm of cough, often lasting longer than 120 sec. This coughing attack is severe, and can often result in not only hypoxia and apnea, but intra-ocular hemorrhage, abdominal or chest wall muscular sprains, and intercostal injuries. Imagine the first breath that you'd take after choking for 2 min. That's a 'whoop'.

Answer 8

Tiny pipe/big breath: The cough in whooping cough empties the lungs of air so completely that the breathe a child finally takes is huge, fast and forced over a tiny swollen airway. That's what makes it so loud.

Answer 9

A seal barking: The whoop of whooping cough is caused by a rapid rush of air into a flexable baby windpipe. The closest sound in nature is a seal barking, which is produced as they force air out and vibrate their windpipe.

Answer 10

"Paroxysmal":: Very rapid cough-cough-cough-cough-cough [many many times without taking a breath] - then, running out of air, a huge gasping intake of breath that sounds like a "whoop" (hence the name). Then, almost instantly, starting over.

Answer 11

Pertussis: A godawful disease that was once part of almost every childhood. Before antibiotics and immunizations, expect 4-8 weeks of constant coughing, so bad one must "whoop" to get in enough air between coughs. Children choked to death or died of ruptured veins in the brain. It's still very much around, kills youngsters and can affect adults whose immunizations have worn off.

Answer 12

100 Day Cough: Whooping cough is an infection caused by the b. Pertussis bacteria. It may cause a severe cough characterized by a loud "whooping" sound, although not always.In infants severe respiratory problems may lead to death. When treated with antibiotics, the cough still lasts about 100 days.Most cases are preventable by immunizing.So the vaccine is best.

Answer 13

Infection of lungs: Whooping cough is named for the horrible repeated sequence of short coughs followed by a dramatic whoop or vibratory noise from the airways as baby takes a deep breath.It is caused by a vaccine preventable bacterial infection of the lungs that produces lots of sticky mucous baby coughs out to get air.Adults, even if immunized as kids, can get it, be asymtomatic & give it to babies who may die.

Answer 14

Complications: The cdc www.Cdc.Gov as recommended to give booster vaccines for pertussis in young adolescents, again in adulthood, even after the recommended pediatric dosages. Bortadella pertussis bacteria causes whooping cough and is treatable with antibiotics but complications can with other pneumonia dehydration-good supportive care with hydration and breathing medication helpful.

Answer 15

Rarely if ever: This could trigger death in a chronically ill 12 yo with CF /asthma or other debilitating illness. It tends to be fatal only in the first 6 months of life when the ids cough to the point of having strokes and dying. For most average 12 yo it would resemble a chronic bronchitis.

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