Symptoms of a four month old baby's hot cough

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My nephew is 5 years old this year. He has been very active and healthy since he was a child. But I don't know why he always coughs these two days. He is very sick and has no spirit. I thought it was just a little cold. Just give him some medicine and he doesn't have to go to the hospital. I didn't expect that after two days, he is still coughing. It's even worse and he has a fever. So my sister took him to the hospital, After the examination, the doctor said that the child may be suffering from pertussis. Now the family are worried. What is pertussis and what are the symptoms? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of a four month old baby's hot cough

Pertussis is an acute respiratory infection, infectious, more common patients are children, but 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.

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

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, suffocation and other complications.

matters needing attention

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.