The symptoms and signs of whooping cough can be prolonged. At first for around a week or two the child will display the symptoms of a common cold. After that for a period of a couple of weeks to, say, a month the child will suffer from a prolonged bout of severe coughing.


In very special and rare cases, the symptoms of whooping cough may manifest in 3 weeks, so slow will be the development of symptoms. This is a highly contagious disease and it is easy for one individual to get infected from another individual who is suffering from whooping cough.



Early whooping cough symptoms
The early symptoms of whooping cough are characterized by tiredness, feelings of fatigue, tears, sore throat, sneezing, runny nose, night cough, mild cough, low grade fever, loss of appetite. At times there may or may not be mild fever during the early stages.


Later symptoms of whooping cough
After the early phase is over and around a week or two has passed, the irritating, dry cough will give way to prolonged bouts of coughing at a stretch. These coughing spells often extend over a minute or more and is characterized by the child taking on a deep purple or red color, brought on by the severe effort and exertion.


The child will feel better and be at peace in between two spells of violent coughing. When his violent fit of coughing ends, and the child breaths in air, it will be characterized by a whooping sound. At times the child may even vomit at the end of the spell.


The violent fits of coughing will be choking attacks and they may recur as many as 50 times daily or only twice daily.


Whooping cough is a disease affecting mainly children and kids. It can also affect adolescents or adults. Even if it strikes the latter group, the symptoms will be very mild or atypical, the spells won’t last as long or there won’t be spells at all. Nor will there be any whooping. But there will certainly be prolonged coughs.

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