Symptoms of pertussis before recovery

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Pertussis is a common disease. The high-risk population is usually children and infants. Pertussis is a respiratory infectious disease caused by human infection with pertussis bacilli. Most patients usually have clonic cough. The early clinical symptoms are generally not obvious. At the beginning, they will cough, sneeze, shed tears, and have low fever, With the development of the disease will appear clonic cough, attack when patients will be very painful, so the symptoms of pertussis before recovery? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of pertussis before recovery

Catarrhal period from the onset to appear spasmodic cough, generally 1-2 weeks. At the beginning, the symptoms are similar to a cold. In addition to coughing, there may be runny nose, sneezing, low fever, or only dry cough. When other symptoms gradually disappeared, cough became more serious, light day and heavy night, gradually showing spasmodic cough.

The spasmodic cough period is usually 2-4 weeks or longer (several days to more than 2 months). Paroxysmal and spasmodic cough were the characteristics of this period. During the attack, cough appeared in a string, with more than ten or dozens of coughs, until sputum or gastric contents were coughed up, followed by deep and long inspirations, giving out a chicken like inspiratory roar. When the cough is severe, there may be urinary incontinence, elbow flexion with clenched hands, eyes wide open, red face, tears, head forward, mouth open, mouth cyanosis, etc. the expression is extremely painful. The light ones are several times a day, and the heavy ones are dozens of times a day, mostly at night. It can be induced by running, eating, catching cold, smoking and crying. Before the attack, there is no obvious omen.

Recovery period is generally 1-2 weeks, the number of cough attacks reduced, the degree of relief, no longer paroxysmal spasmodic cough. But if you encounter smoke and other stimulation, or respiratory tract infection, you can repeat paroxysmal spasmodic cough.

matters needing attention

Pertussis is infectious, so if you find it, you must go to the hospital for isolation treatment, otherwise it is more infectious. First of all, we should keep the air fresh, temperature and humidity must be moderate