Whooping Cough

Know about it and look after yourself and the community. It is horrible. Just horrible. Whooping cough is something we had got rid of. It is not so easy to deal with now. We have had it doing the rounds before and it was tough. My daughter got it when she was in year 8 and I was horrified because I had had her immunised. The immunisation didn't stop her from getting it but of the children her age getting it , she recuperated the fastest and had no relapse like the others. She was coughing a lot. It seemed like flu, but she just kept coughing and then she breathed in...and could not breathe out. As a mother I was terrified. I had to keep my head and tell her to breathe out. Breathe out! It is important to get the right medicines. It is also important to know you become less prone to it as you are older so you might carry it and not be aware really that you have whooping cough. There is no point in panicking. Get the facts out. Get the treatments out. Get the management plans in place because no one needs a child with whooping cough. Not one adult in contact with her got it and we were all tested. Our immunizations were a lot older than hers.