How does child whooping cough treat

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The incidence rate of whooping cough is higher than that of children in the past. The disease is caused by the bacterium pertussis, which invades the endomembrane (bronchi and bronchioles), causes severe inflammation, and causes respiratory tract stenosis. The most important symptom is cough. If not detected in time, these bacteria may be transmitted from the infected person to other close contacts through respiratory secretions. Let's talk about how to treat children's pertussis.

How does child whooping cough treat

First: for pertussis, infants under 1 year old are the most high-ranking people, and they are easy to develop into serious respiratory problems and life-threatening situations. When a child has shortness of breath, he may have a deeper and faster happy breath during the cough period. This kind of breathing (especially in older infants) will form a breath sound similar to loud cry, so pertussis is a common disease It's called Tianxiao. This kind of strong cough can spray the pertussis bacilli in the child's body into the air, causing infection to other easily infected people, so try not to take the baby to a crowded place.

Second: in the first week or two, pertussis tends to behave like the common cold. Next, cough symptoms get worse (and discomfort improves like a cold), and older children's symptoms begin to develop into a typical loud cough. At this stage (generally lasting for two weeks or more), children tend to have shortness of breath, resulting in anoxic emotional words around the lips. At the same time, the child may also appear crying, drooling and vomiting symptoms. A baby with pertussis may appear to breathe or vomit after a long cough. Babies with pertussis can become listless and prone to other infectious diseases, pneumonia and convulsions. For some infants, pertussis is a fatal disease, but in terms of the natural course of the disease, he will start to improve in 2-4 weeks. Cough may persist for months and may recur with subsequent other respiratory infections.

Third: the child is still a very young baby, has not been fully immune to this disease, has contacted someone with chronic cough or this disease. The child's cough becomes more serious and frequent, or the child's lips and nail bed become dark and blue. After a cough attack, the child becomes exhausted, eats little, or vomits after coughing and looks sick.

matters needing attention

Most infants under six months of age with pertussis, and less than half of the older children, need to be hospitalized. This intensive care has greatly reduced the risk of complications in these children, the most common of which include pneumonia.