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DIAGNOSIS

The diagnosis is easy in preschoolers or older children, but infants and children younger than 6 months the picture is not typical and should be suspected when the cough is intense and prolonged.

In lab tests found a prevalence linfositario leukocytosis can reach 100 thousand or more white blood cells per cubic millimeter.

The etiological diagnosis can only be carried out by special bordetella nasopharyngeal and virological study

TREATMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The treatment for pertussis Bordetella pertussis is erythromycin base. Although the bordetella has been shown to be sensitive to multiple antibiotics in vitro. Read the rest of this entry »

The clinical illness is varied because it can occur in mild cases and severe, as well as short or long. But on average takes six to eight weeks.
For this study we will divide into three periods:

CATARRHAL PERIOD .- The condition begins with Rinorea, sneezing, watery eyes, mild fever and dry cough. Disappearing the first few days while the cough progresses in frequency and intensity until it becomes paroxysmal in one to two weeks.

Paroxysmal PERIOD .- In this period we find the characteristic coughing spells of whooping cough, which are presented with 10 or more coughing, spasmodic, cyanotic, sometimes emetic, with protrusion of the tongue that ends with a prolonged inspiratory stridor . The stridor is not present in newborns and young infants. Read the rest of this entry »

Whooping cough is an infectious disease. This condition is universal distribution of endemic type. The disease occurs almost exclusively in childhood, although cases have been reported in adults not typical. The newborn is likely because the maternal antibodies are not protective and the incidence increases from the first months of life as age advances.

In poorly sanitized means there is a greater number of cases at an early age: newborns and infants. Mortality and morbidity are higher in the female half. Read the rest of this entry »

What is chronic cough?

Chronic cough is all that persists for more than three weeks without an obvious cause.

What causes it?

First, look on the characteristics of the cough, for it was divided into a productive cough (with phlegm) and nonproductive cough.

When the cough is productive we think of a chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, chronic sinusitis, pneumonitis, bronchiectasis, and bacterial tracheitis. Read the rest of this entry »