Whooping cough sound is unique. The disease can be identified clearly by hearing the sound of the cough and monitoring other symptoms. Combining with other lab tests result, a health practitioner can determine the presence of the disease.
Whooping cough or also known as pertussis is a highly contagious disease that affect to human respiratory tract. It can affect to any body but infants and children are commonly more prone to this health problem. The disease can be identified by the presence of rapid and violence cough followed by a high-pitched “whooping sound” when the sufferer intakes their breath.
At the early stage, the specific pertussis cough sound doesn’t available, the early symptoms of whooping cough are similar to common cold or influenza such as runny nose, mild cough, sore throat, watery eyes, sneeze, and low-grade fever especially at the first week after the infection. Experts associate those early signs with the first of three stages during the disease called as Catarrhal stage. Compared to other two stages, the first stage is the most contagious one.
How the whooping cough sound developed?
The presence of specific cough sound starts to appear at the second stage or also called as paroxysmal stage. At this time, more severe and frequent cough starts to appear. The cough may hits anytime but usually more severe in the night. Those who experience this rapid and violent cough will experience breath difficulty. After a session of cough, the individual may quickly inhale when trying to take a breath which sometimes results a high-pitched whooping noise.
The specific whoop noise is not always develops in all patients. In several cases, children or infants who get the disease they don’t cough as adult or older kids do. Reddened face may appear in infants when they are gasping for oxygen in the air. Some of teens and adults who infected by Bordetella pertussis may experience atypical signs such as coughing without whooping cough sound and prolonged cough rather than coughing spells.
How to prevent pertussis?
Experts agree whooping cough vaccination is the best protection of the disease onset. A study shows that those who didn’t get the vaccine called DTaP, Tdap, and Tp are more prone to the disease. The DTaP vaccine typically is given in a series of vaccination shoots before a child’s 6th birthday. To extend the protection, often a booster shoot is given to kids with 11-18 years of age. Experts recommend to give the Tdap vaccine when the kids 11 to 12 years of their age. In several countries this vaccination is strongly recommended to eliminate the development of the frightening whooping cough sound.
Whooping cough or also known as pertussis is a highly contagious disease that affect to human respiratory tract. It can affect to any body but infants and children are commonly more prone to this health problem. The disease can be identified by the presence of rapid and violence cough followed by a high-pitched “whooping sound” when the sufferer intakes their breath.
At the early stage, the specific pertussis cough sound doesn’t available, the early symptoms of whooping cough are similar to common cold or influenza such as runny nose, mild cough, sore throat, watery eyes, sneeze, and low-grade fever especially at the first week after the infection. Experts associate those early signs with the first of three stages during the disease called as Catarrhal stage. Compared to other two stages, the first stage is the most contagious one.
How the whooping cough sound developed?
The presence of specific cough sound starts to appear at the second stage or also called as paroxysmal stage. At this time, more severe and frequent cough starts to appear. The cough may hits anytime but usually more severe in the night. Those who experience this rapid and violent cough will experience breath difficulty. After a session of cough, the individual may quickly inhale when trying to take a breath which sometimes results a high-pitched whooping noise.
How to prevent pertussis?
Experts agree whooping cough vaccination is the best protection of the disease onset. A study shows that those who didn’t get the vaccine called DTaP, Tdap, and Tp are more prone to the disease. The DTaP vaccine typically is given in a series of vaccination shoots before a child’s 6th birthday. To extend the protection, often a booster shoot is given to kids with 11-18 years of age. Experts recommend to give the Tdap vaccine when the kids 11 to 12 years of their age. In several countries this vaccination is strongly recommended to eliminate the development of the frightening whooping cough sound.
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