What symptom does child whooping cough have

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As we all know, pertussis is a common disease, which makes us unable to work and study normally and seriously affects people's mood. My nephew is 6 years old. He has been very active since childhood and is in good health. But I don't know why he always coughs these two days and people are very sick. I thought it was just a little cold. Just give him some medicine and don't have to go to the doctor After two days, he was still coughing, and even worse, he had a fever, so my sister took him to the hospital. After the examination, the doctor said that the child might be suffering from pertussis. Now the family are worried about it. I'll tell you what the symptoms of pertussis are.

What symptom does child whooping cough have

First: pertussis is an acute respiratory infection, infectious, more common patients are children, but there are also adults will suffer from pertussis, mainly due to bacterial infection, mainly pertussis bacillus. The course of disease is generally long, it takes several weeks to get better.

Second: sometimes it takes two or three months for pertussis to recover, so it is called pertussis. It is divided into catarrhal period, spasmodic cough period and recovery period. In catarrhal period, there will be chest tightness, cough, runny nose, fever and other symptoms like cold, which are more serious at night.

Third: in the spasmodic cough period, patients will have spasmodic cough, bleeding symptoms, and even convulsions, asphyxia and other symptoms, especially in children, these symptoms will be very obvious, adult pertussis symptoms are not so obvious, to the late patients may have pneumonia, asphyxia and other complications.

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Pertussis is a more dangerous disease, will seriously endanger the health of patients, so patients must be treated in time, children with pertussis, mother also need not be too nervous, as long as timely treatment, pay attention to some problems in life, also will soon recover.