Whooping Cough Causes

Medical Name: Pertussis

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Some Herbal and Home Remedies for the treatment of whooping cough.

What are the causes of whooping cough?

Whooping cough is usually caused by the bacteria named bordetella pertussis or simply b.pertussis and is one of the highly contagious bacterial infections known. Humans are the only known reservoir of these bacteria. In pertussis, there is a inflammation around your lungs that makes your breathing narrow, making it very difficult to breathe.

Pertussis is spread very easily through direct contact. It can also be transferred from one person to other when the droplets coughed or sneezed out by someone already suffering from whooping cough comes on a healthy person or by contact with recently contaminated surfaces upon which the droplets landed.

Anyone who has not been vaccinated or his vaccination date has been over, can easily get whooping cough just by spending time in the same room as an infected person. The incubation period - the time between contracting the infection and the appearance of the main symptoms - can vary from 5 to 15 days or even longer.

The person can be infectious (able to pass the infection to others) for a maximum of six weeks after the symptoms start. But, you must take prevention by some home remedies from the beginning only, so that at whatever stage the disease is at, after 3-5 days of you start taking medicines and following home remedies, the person can be considered non-infectious, and there is no danger to others. It is usual, however, to have an antibiotic for 7 to 14 days.

Older children are usually not seriously affected by whooping cough, but they can spread the infection to younger babies.

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