Whooping cough, as an acute respiratory infection, often manifests as a recurrent and violent cough that can last for one or two months or even longer, so it is known as "whooping cough". For delicate babies, if left untreated, it can have serious consequences. So, how is pertussis treated after a whooping cough infection? How can I prevent it in my life?
In this issue, Hua Chunzhen, deputy director and chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, is invited to interpret the prevention and treatment of whooping cough for you.
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Early diagnosis and early treatment
Whooping cough is not scary
Director Hua said that whooping cough is a disease that can be treated with medicine, and early diagnosis and treatment should be done.
In the past, pertussis was usually treated with macrolide antibiotics such as erythromycin and azithromycin, but now domestic studies have found that antibiotics such as compound sulfamethoxazole and piperacillin have better therapeutic effects on pertussis.
During the recovery period of whooping cough, if the cough does not heal, you can also consider using traditional Chinese medicine treatment to reduce the symptoms.
After being infected with whooping cough, the body produces antibodies, so it generally does not recur again in the short term.
Pertussis is a disease that the population is generally susceptible to, and adults have higher immunity and milder symptoms after infection, so they are often not taken seriously.
However, once infected in children, the symptoms are more obvious, so the diagnosis rate of whooping cough in children is higher.
Here, Director Hua suggests that parents should take protective measures after the corresponding uncomfortable symptoms, and do not take the disease lightly and transmit the disease to the children at home.
Nowadays, the vast majority of children have been vaccinated against pertussis, and the symptoms are not very severe after infection, and those who are diagnosed positive for whooping cough but are asymptomatic do not need to intervene too much, only need to take protective measures to avoid infecting others.
In addition, pertussis infection generally does not leave sequelae, and the antibody level in the body will also increase, so parents do not need to be too nervous about this.
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How to prevent whooping cough infection
Director Hua said that pertussis vaccination is an affordable and effective preventive measure, and can effectively prevent the emergence of critical pertussis disease.
Clinically, 95% of patients with severe pertussis are infants who are not fully vaccinated against pertussis.
The transmission distance of pertussis germs is less than 2.5 meters, and its ability to survive in vitro is weak, and it is difficult to survive without the human body.
Patients with whooping cough are usually managed as a single disease during their stay in the hospital, and if the patient is at home, protective measures should be taken.
If an adult is diagnosed with whooping cough, he can control the condition as soon as possible by taking medication to avoid infecting his family.
Director Hua emphasized that the symptoms of pertussis infection in infants are more serious, and families with infants must take good precautions to prevent pertussis from being transmitted to infants.
Bacillus pertussis has harsh requirements for the growth environment and nutrition, and is not resistant to dryness, so frequent ventilation at home and frequent use of alcohol to disinfect children's products can effectively prevent pertussis infection.
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