Does baby have pertussis serious?

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Small babies are so small that they are more likely to suffer from various diseases, so once parents and friends find that their babies are abnormal, they need to take immediate measures to treat them. Pertussis is a common infectious disease in infants. Once pertussis appears, it will cause serious problems. Does baby have pertussis serious? Let's talk about it

Does baby have pertussis serious?

Pertussis is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by Bacillus pertussis. The main manifestation is cough. The course of disease can be as long as 100 days, so it is called "pertussis". The disease is transmitted by droplets and can occur in all seasons of the year, but most of them occur in spring. It mainly occurs in infants under 2 years old. Newborns may also have this disease because they can't get the corresponding antibody from the mother. However, due to the extensive vaccination, the disease has been significantly reduced, and after a lifetime can no longer suffer from.

Children with the disease after 1-2 weeks of symptoms. Early onset of children with tears, runny nose, cough and low fever and other symptoms, and common cold is difficult to distinguish. After 3-4 days, the cough became more and more severe. After about 1-2 weeks, the cough gradually aggravated and entered the spasmodic cough period. At this time, the typical severe spasmodic cough appeared. Each attack to cough more than ten or even dozens of times, children often cough red, tearful communication, tongue extension, and finally cough up a lot of mucus, and due to strong inhalation and appear like a chicken roar, such a few times a day or even 30-40 times, especially at night, the younger the age, the more serious the disease.

Three month old infants often show paroxysmal breath holding, cyanosis and asphyxia, while no large infant has typical severe spasmodic cough, and some even have systemic spasm, loss of consciousness and even death. Spasmodic cough period generally lasts 5-6 weeks, and some as long as 3 months. After that, the child's cough gradually alleviated and entered the recovery period, which lasted about 2-4 weeks. However, some children still have paroxysmal spasmodic cough within half a year or even one year after the disease.

matters needing attention

After the birth of the baby, we must do a good job in all kinds of vaccination, do not delay the vaccination because of some hearsay. Under normal circumstances, as long as the vaccination of DPT vaccine, are very good to improve the situation of pertussis, and now there are two kinds of DPT vaccine, according to the actual situation of the transfer of options.