Doctors called the main differences of whooping cough from bronchitis

The symptoms of these two diseases do not differ from each other.

Whooping cough and other viral diseases have similar symptoms, especially in the first few days of the disease. Why put yourself or your child a diagnosis is almost impossible, except in those cases when a family has a physician or infectious disease.

Who is at risk of whooping cough and bronchitis?

Bronchitis may become ill each, regardless of age. Bronchitis is not a serious disease like whooping cough, so don’t do vaccinations. Any respiratory illness can turn into something more, for example, bronchitis, if not carried out proper treatment of the original disease.

Whooping cough is more common in children and those adults who as children not vaccinated against pertussis sticks “Bordetella pertussis”. By the way, vaccinated people can also get sick with pertussis, but they will have weakened the symptoms and recovery will come sooner.

How to distinguish bronchitis from whooping cough and Vice versa?

In the first week of the disease the symptoms of bronchitis and whooping cough are identical: the increase in temperature to 38 degrees, runny nose, lethargy and weakness, sore throat, cough. But it is worth noting that the Bacillus of whooping cough makes cough is paroxysmal, and if the bronchitis to stop the coughing you can use sprays or other medications when the illness is impossible to influence the person to stop coughing.

Already at 10 days of whooping cough the patient have a cough, accompanied by redness of the face, with discharge of viscous sputum (sometimes with blood) and hemorrhage in the sclera of the eye.

Unfortunately, whooping cough can fail unexpectedly and sadly fatal, the cause of which will serve as a suffocation during a seizure. In this regard, doctors recommend not to leave alone a patient with whooping cough, as he may need immediate help. Whooping cough treated about three months and required antibiotics.

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