Adults in adults: ways of infection. Symptoms, treatment and prevention of whooping cough in adults

This article will tell about the infectious disease of whooping cough in adulthood. We will discuss the symptoms of this disease and its treatment.

• Cough is attributed to common infectious diseases that affects the upper respiratory tract
• This disease cannot affect animals and develops only in humans. The danger of whooping cough is only in childhood, and adults tolerate it in the form of dry prolonged bronchitis
• Moating bronchitis is difficult to therapy. Often in adults, wholesalers are without a bright principle and remains unnoticed for a long time

Signs and symptoms of whooping cough in adults

It is worth noting that the symptoms of the disease may not appear immediately after infection, but from a week to three weeks after infection. This period is called incubation. In the incubation period, the patient does not release the bacterium and not It is contagious.

The release of a whooping trim begins at the time of the manifestation of the first symptoms of cough. When coughing, the bacteria are actively released with jerking contents into the air. In close contact with a sick patient, the disease can be easily infected if you do not use personal protective equipment in the form of a mask.

The symptoms of this disease in adults are as follows:

• In adult pertussis at the beginning of its development, it is more similar to ordinary acute respiratory infections. The patient feels general weakness and pain or sore throat. Often can be observed rinorea (runny nose) and sneezing. The temperature usually does not exceed 38.6 degrees Celsius. The rise in temperature can occur we are present chill and fever

• The next symptom that joins the above is a cough. In the initial stages, this is not a big coughing that does not particularly bother the patient. The cough is dry and does not respond to the reception antitussive Or sputum diluting funds. This is what should be alert when diagnosing such a cough

• After about three weeks of such a state, the cough begins to intensify and becomes a superstar, goes into a state of seizures. It should be noted that such attacks often occur at night. At the beginning of a cough attack of bronchi spasm so often that the patient is not able to breathe air

Due to the lack of oxygen, the skin of the patient can acquire a crimson or pale color. A similar attack can last an average of three minutes. Depending on the severity of the disease, such attacks can occur from 7 times a day and up to 20 times in one hour. Cough coughing is so intense that it can lead to loss of consciousness or vomiting

Cases are described when, during a cough attack, with coughing diseases, the patient broke due to intense cough.

A feature of this disease is that in periods outside the coughing attacks, a person can feel completely healthy.

How much cough lasts in adults?

• Show is a serious and serious illness. The disease can last from several weeks to several months, bringing the patient to torment
• Cough attacks become more often and more intense by the third week of the disease. With timely diagnosis and treatment, coughing can take place over the next three weeks. It is impossible to get rid of the symptoms of the disease immediately after the onset of therapy, since cough is a complex and difficult to stop disease
• However, on time, the therapy starts the general condition and reduces the frequency and intensity of coughing attacks, facilitating the path to recovery

Diagnosis of whooping cough in adults

• It is difficult to diagnose and distinguish from pertishes from para-decisive (similar) infection. But it is worth remembering that the pathogen of this disease is transmitted exclusively from a person to a person by airborne droplets
• The data of the collected history may indicate a possible infection as a result of a patient’s contact with a previously ill cowcream. Whooping cough is not a complication of other infections and not develops against the background of acute respiratory infections
• The diagnosis of this disease is the complexity distinguish cough from occupational respiratory diseases and existing chronic diseases in the aggravation stage
• Symptom complex, manifested by a pertussis infection, makes it possible to suggest this particular disease. Since coughing attacks with this pathology are quite characteristic
• To clarify the alleged diagnosis, the patient is sowing during the patient’s coughing on special environments and the study of microflora developing in the environment under a microscope. A number of additional studies and tests are also performed to assess the general condition of the patient

Chronic pertussis in adults and complications

It is believed that having passed this disease once, a person develops persistent immunity to whooping cough infection, which is lifelong. However, cases of repeated cough disease in adulthood are described and there is the possibility of forming a chronic disease against the background of weakened immunity and pathology of the respiratory system.

In the case of the acute phase of the course of the disease to a chronic form, this may entail a number of severe complications that require constant therapy. These include:

• development of bronchopneumonia and bronchiectotic diseases. There is a constant source of infection in the lungs ,and constant cough attacks cause expansion and across bronchiol

• cough can provoke pathologies of the brain, which are accompanied by convulsive syndrome and seizures

• at the time of a cough attack, due to an increase in intracranial pressure, areas of hemorrhage in the protein of the eye and even the brain may form

• for the same reasons associated with an increase in intra -abdominal pressure during coughing, groin hernias, umbilical hernias can form and rectum falling out

• In adult, the development of pertussis pneumonia can lead to death

• With prolonged and intense coughing attacks, breathing holds and development of heart failure may occur (heart failure)

It should be noted that in adulthood, with adequate treatment, this disease is much easier and with less risks for life than in children. In childhood, about 350 thousand children out of 50 million registered diseases perish annually.

How to treat whooping cough in adults correctly?

In adulthood, cough treatment does not require hospitalization and is often carried out on an outpatient mode. But only if there are no convulsive seizures, loss of consciousness or respiratory arrest in a severe course of the disease.

Recall. That only a doctor is prescribed any drug, after confirming the alleged diagnosis.

The main directions of cough therapy are as follows:
• First of all, individual antibiotic therapy is prescribed
• To reduce the viscosity of sputum and its best evacuation, funds that thin the sputum are prescribed
• To reduce the intensity and frequency of cough seizures, it is necessary to appoint antitussive drugs
• If a massive inflammatory process has a massive inflammatory process according to the results of the examination, in this case it is possible to prescribe corticosteroids to suppress it
• In rare cases, anti -allergic drugs can be prescribed to relieve swelling
• An important step is to comply with the regime of the day, compliance with a sparing diet and the use of a large amount of liquid
• The air in the room should not be dry, it should be moistened. It is recommended to find a patient near reservoirs at an air temperature not lower than -10 to -15 degrees
• Positive emotions with emission endorphin The bloodstream also positively affect the patient, reducing the number of coughing seizures

Treatment of pertussis in adults with antibiotics

Antibacterial therapy is prescribed without fail and strictly individually.

To select the necessary antibiotic, a specialized analysis is carried out by sowing bacteria on a special environment with areas of antibacterial therapy drugs. Thus, laboratory assistants determine which antibiotic the bacterium is more sensitive.

Often prescribed by antibacterial agents are the following:
• Clarithromycin
• Azithromycin
• Erythromycin

These antibiotics are very aggressive and effective. But their independent reception is contraindicated. The doctor must personally individually choose the necessary dose and set a scheme for taking this drug.

Treatment of pertussis in adults with folk remedies

There are several folk methods of cough therapy, while they are approved by doctors. But remember that only traditional medicine cannot be used, but it is possible to combine it with drug therapy.

We will describe some recipes:

1. Recipe: prepare a mixture of chopped garlic, which is poured with 100 grams previously melted butter. The mixture must be given to cool and rub it into the soles of the legs before bedtime. In this case, the legs should then be put into warm socks

2. Recipe: prepare 1 cup of vegetable oil, into which grind 5 medium zubochkov garlic. Boil this mixture and let cool. It is necessary to boil the product for 7 minutes. Then take this tool on a teaspoon every 3 hours within 3 days

3. Recipe: 3 tablespoons of sunflower seeds (previously dried in the oven), pour 300 ml with water, in which 1 tablespoon of honey is dissolved. Grind the seeds before preparing the product. Bring this mixture to a boil and boil to boiling exactly half the volume, let the decoction cool. Then the product must be strain and accept within a day small sips

4. Recipe: In equal proportions, it is necessary to mix 6%vinegar, fir oil and camphor oil. In this mixture, moisten the flap of the fabric, squeeze and make the compress to the upper chest. The procedure is carried out before nightmare, wrapping the patient. It is not recommended to carry out the procedure for children under 13 years of age

Prevention of whooping cough in adults

The well -known vaccine, which is carried out against whooping cough in childhood in 3 stages of DTP. This vaccine is approved by the Ministry of Health.

At adulthood, other methods of prevention are used. People who have not passed immunization or are ill are recommended to introduce immune bodies against cough infection. This is an immunoglobulin of a person who contains antibodies to this infection. This immunoglobulin is administered to prevent the disease or relieve symptoms in the case of an infection.

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