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100-Day Cough...anyone Had It?
I think I first saw it mentioned on here. I ask because a few weeks ago my daughter said she had terrible bronchitis and had caught it in Italy 2 weeks previously. Dreadful coughing etc. She still had it early this week...I said...half joking that maybe it was the 100day cough. She'd never heard of it. Go to the doctor, I said. I then googled and was shocked to learn that it's whooping cough.
She had all the symptoms.
She finally saw a doctor yesterday and got antibiotics...Dr only asked if she had covid.
She had the Pertussis vaccine as a baby...but apparently it looses effectiveness over time.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.the ads in the tube used to advise seeing a doctor if your cough lasted more than three weeks. They didn't do so this winter, perhaps to ease the burden on GPs.
The colds arund this last winter seem to have been a lot more vicious than I have seen before; jno jnr says he's had far more of his staff off at any given time.
I had whooping cough as a child and my parents were advised to take a flight as the air at altitude would be better for me. I don't know how that works, but we did take a flight in a Tiger Moth and apparently it did work.
I hope the antibiotics work.
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