Pertussis is a serious illness. How to treat it?

Pertussis is a rather complicated and unpleasant disease that prevents you from living normally. Pathology develops due to a bacterial infection that is quickly transmitted through the air. Children and people with weak immunity are affected by this disease . Even at the beginning of the century, pathology provoked whole epidemics, but now its outbreaks are a rarity due to timely prevention.

Pertussis is a debilitating disease, the causative agent of which is volatile, but unstable to sunlight and various disinfectants. It should be noted that the symptomatology of the disease is not specific, therefore, it is not always possible to distinguish it from usual flu or cold without consulting a specialist. Sign of the disease is fever, general weakness, runny nose. The brightest symptom is a barking cough that intensifies at night. It is dry and frequent. With the development of the disease, cough becomes very strong and exhausts the person.

Pertussis is a complex disease. Spasmodic cough can last more than a month. It should be noted that it is difficult to treat it. The fact is that conventional antitussive drugs do not relieve spasms. Naturally, the disease must be treated under the strict supervision of a doctor. Most often, the elimination of symptoms is carried out in the infectious ward with isolation of the patient and mandatory quarantine. Treatment should be symptomatic and complex. For example, such drugs as "Stoptussin", "Kodipron", "Sinekod" and others are used to suppress the cough reflex. The patient is prescribed oral medication, as well as inhalation. To cough up the patient, you can take Ambroxol syrup. To eliminate infection, antibiotics and antibacterial drugs are used. Naturally, this disease requires strengthening the defenses of the body, so the doctor will advise certain immunostimulating drugs, as well as substances that promote the activation of metabolic processes in the body.

Pertussis is a long-term disease that leaves its imprint. For example, after healing during any subsequent catarrhal disease, a barking cough appears again. It is impossible not to mention the complications that appear in the future. This disease has a negative effect on the cardiovascular, respiratory and nervous system.

If you have caught whooping cough, complications can be such: pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, hemorrhage, carditis, brain edema, otitis, damage to the tympanic membrane with subsequent deafness or hearing loss. In order to reduce the number of outbreaks, modern medicine has developed a whole range of activities. If the pathology is fixed in a team of children or adults, the sick person is isolated, and those individuals who have contacted him are in strict quarantine under the supervision of doctors.

If you do not want you or your children to have whooping cough, vaccination is the most effective and simple way of prevention. It should be noted that this vaccination is mandatory. It is included in the list of mandatory vaccinations approved by the Ministry of Health. It is made only 4 times: at 3 and 4.5 and 6 months, as well as at 1.5 years.