Doctor explains WHOOPING COUGH plus examples of REAL SOUNDS | Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & more!
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- In this video you hear real sounds of whooping cough (2 minutes 4 seconds) which is also known as pertussis. Doctor O'Donovan also explains causes, symptoms, treatment, and warning signs.
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 What is Whooping cough?
01:17 Symptoms
02:14 SOUNDS OF WHOOPING COUGH
02:38 Diagnosis
03:58 Treatment
04:54 Warning signs
SYMPTOMS:
Once you become infected with whooping cough, it takes about seven to 10 days for signs and symptoms to appear, though it can sometimes take longer. They're usually mild at first and resemble those of a common cold:
- Runny nose
- Nasal congestion
- Red, watery eyes
- Fever
- Cough
After a week or two, signs and symptoms worsen. Thick mucus accumulates inside your airways, causing uncontrollable coughing. Severe and prolonged coughing attacks may:
- Provoke vomiting
- Result in a red or blue face
- Cause extreme fatigue
- End with a high-pitched "whoop" sound during the next breath of air
However, many people don't develop the characteristic whoop.
Sometimes, a persistent hacking cough is the only sign that an adolescent or adult has whooping cough.
Infants may not cough at all. Instead, they may struggle to breathe, or they may even temporarily stop breathing.
SEEK URGENT MEDICAL ATTENTION IF:
- your child has periods of stopping breathing and their face or lips go blue (cyanosis)
- you or your child are finding it hard to breathe properly (shallow breathing)
- you or your child have chest pain that's worse when breathing or coughing - this could be a sign of pneumonia
- your child is having fits (seizures)
Further information:
INFORMATION FROM NHS WEBSITE:
www.nhs.uk/conditions/whoopin...
MAYO CLINIC INFORMATION (USA):
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c...
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It never occured to me that "whooping" referred to the sound the inhale makes rather than the cough itself, which was quite confusing, so this is pretty helpful.
same-there's an outbreak in NC and a few other states
I have whooping cough and it’s a nightmare. I wasn’t diagnosed until I’d had it for 4 weeks so the antibiotics did nothing to help. Steroids helped a little but the coughing attacks and choking /gasping for breath were terrible and really scary. Sitting up in bed at night helps a little but once you feel the cough coming on, there’s little you can do.
My GP has reported it to PHE. I’m now in week 8, still getting a very sudden cough but not the choking. Cold air makes it worse so I’m being really careful here in the UK in March.
I’ve sort of forgotten what it’s like to feel well to be honest. Very tired but just able to do a gentle dog walk now.
I found a record doing genealogy research that my great great great grandfather had a niece who died at the age of 7 from whooping cough in 1896. I found this video on CZcams and listened to the child sound. Can’t imagine the suffering of the parents. It almost brought tears to my eyes.
Who is here in 2024 following the recent whooping cough health scare? Give me a like. Very helpful information here which can save life.
Glad this was helpful
im about a month in but mine has significantly decreased in frequency and id say the best advice for people suffering from this is to just stay calm usually i would panic and i would make the “whooping” sound really aggressively i learnt to control my cough and stay calm whenever it happened especially in the night when it was usually worse for some reason also drink lots of water as it usually helps with bringing out the phlegm 👍
I truly appreciate how you highlighted the timestamps, my daughter is coughing at night and I’m a concerned parent, but wouldn’t her mother and I also get whooping cough since it’s highly contagious? We’re always together.
I don't know about the U.K. but here in the states they give whooping cough shots to old people too. I know this because I'm an old person and I got mine. Thank you for explaining this disease so clearly.
A pleasure as always
AMAZING video. Especially adding the shortcuts for those in a hurry. I watched the whole, was wondering what was going on with my son. It seemed pretty random.
Glad it helped! Thanks for the feedback
Excellent video, I'm a med student from Brazil - currently on my 2nd year - and this video summarized very well all main aspects of this terrible disease. Thank you for this sublime peace of content, keep it up love the video format!
Thanks for the kind feedback Pedro and best wishes with your medical studies. Would it be helpful if I were to create content in Portuguese?
@@DoctorODonovan Sure! When it comes to graduating new Medical Students Brazil only loses to India! I'm sure many people would enjoy watching it :)
You’re gonna have some steady job security working in the medical field in Brazil. All the ridiculous levels of violence by the simpletons out there will keep you busy.
Plant soup can treat asthma. There will be no recurrence in the future.
Thank you for this vital information.
Glad it was helpful!
thank you very much, yet, i would like to learn as well what to do, how to treat it once the phase which can be effectively treated with ATB has phased? thank you especially for the examples of whooping coughing.
Thank you! This video is very helpful to me.
Glad to hear this
Excellent presentation. You know how to make a helpful video 💪
You're very welcome.
Thanks this is very helpful!
👍🏼👍🏼
It was a traumatizing period even for me as a dad when my then school age daughter contracted whooping cough from a high brow school. When I asked her she named a classmate as the source. She completed college this year
Sorry to hear this wishing you the best
High brow/ Low brow? Disease does not know your socioeconomic status
Dude sounds so out of touch with reality
I'm two months in and while still getting coughing fits the whooping part has just about finished. It was scary as it was hard to get a breath and there was a fear of inhaling mucous from the mouth. I had to sleep sitting up in bed a lot for the first few weeks and poor sleep meant fatigue in the day. Rang the GP's surgery early on but couldn't get an appointment. They offered a respiratory check due to shortness of breath but I'd have to travel to another city for it so I declined and like most other people who've got it just struggle on and wait for the '100 day cough' to work itself out.
Thank you
Good information
Thanks
Just noticed that a child whooping cough sounds EXACTLY like 4 year old me when I would be having an asthma attack.
Thanks, doc
Most welcome!
Came here because I'm 24 weeks pregnant and have been coughing for over three weeks, often coughing is making me vomit because the mucus is so thick and the coughing is also causing incontinence. I have a doctors appointment in 2 days and I am really hoping they can give me something to help ease it away. Also I wanted to get the whooping cough vaccine at 28 weeks and now I'm not sure I'll be able to.
This is very very useful. Thank you. Interestingly I've had a cough for about 2 weeks now with some of these sounds (not at the time) but doctor's have not tested me for whooping cough but given me the same antibiotics to treat it. I'm surprised about not being tested given the advice from PHE and the fact that it's so contagious. I had one episode of not being able to breathe at all but no-one seemed particularly worried about this.
Glad you found the video helpful
Sound which you surround I'm suffering same on those. Help me for the best medicine at least combination you must need to provide DR.
Thank you for the video. Its very helpful identifying my 1 yo’s whooping cough.
A pleasure
Thank you very clear
You are welcome!
I had this at 13 into 14. It literally lasted most of the year. I recall getting what i thought was a cold with a cough in early March as it was just after my nan died end of Feb and that likely didn't help. It wasn't until June that this cough turned into the periodic coughing fits that caused choking and spluttering and sometimes vomiting. The whole experience was truly traumatising and just seeing footage of people having these attacks over 30 years later can set me off in tears. I quickly learned to sleep propped up into a sitting position as I was too terrified to lay down but it would still wake me several times each night. The stage with the coughing fits lasted about 2 weeks then it was just a gradual improvement from there. I recall in the summer holidays about August we were walking in the peak district and the physical exersion climbing hills was making it bad and some other hikers mentioned about it to my dad. The worst thing was that it was never diagnosed. I never had a coughing fit at the docs so he never got to see it. I got antibiotics and an inhaler as he was trying to guess but i knew it was not asthma. One of the halmarks is that your chest sounds clear when they listen to it with this cough. I recall having a coughing fit in the chemist when waiting for the prescriptions and a bunch of other people waiting for theirs were all looking at me in shock horror. I'd say it was back end of the year when I was having the final remnants of that dratted cough. We lost my grandad that November and I was also bullied and beaten up at school at the end of Oct so it was a pretty rubbish year for me.
Thank you doctor 💊 for sharing inspirational whoop 👍💯
Any time
The fact I started coughing really badly yesterday and my coughs sound like this is terrifying
Sorry. Please see your health provider if you have any concerns as I can’t give any individual advice here due to medico-legal reasons.
@@DoctorODonovan I actually did see a doctor yesterday and gave me medicine so hopefully I’ll be alright
I have whooping cough now and it's horrible my doctor missed it now I have a little bit of pneumonia it's important you catch this very early to avoid what I'm going through.
I think I'm going through this too, only I have thick mucus as well which blocks my air way and sticks to my throat
Same here continuous cough and difficult inhaling
I have it now. After I cough, I cannot breathe air in, I literally choke for half a minute. At the end, when air starts to come in slowly, it sounds like that. I also vomit. But I found that drinking water during choking part somehow relaxes and opens my airways.
Same here!
How are you doing now?
Do you mean while you caugh you drink? I'm having the same problem i cant get ear in only out im struggling so bad to take a breath. Do you think that ventolin might help its a pump for astma. They cant breath and it helps them ore these is not the same it feels like a cram in my breathing tube. Its so scary fealing
Hi there,same here but ONLY when i'm sleeping.You are from Europe?What your doctor said?
Hi. Yes European. Dr sed she thinks it can't help cause its different deaseas but other dr prescribed me something similar so dont know im using it, cant hurt. I've injured my rib during caughin. Hope it finishes soon its so exhougsting.
Studying this in med school now and this video with the sound is very helpful. How do we distinguish this from the cough produced due to croup?
As a mom and not a medical professional but a mom who has experienced croup in both children. Croup sounds like a seal barking and it almost sounds deep in the lungs
Croup is a barking sound. Whooping cough is a rapid cough with breath sucked in. Completely different.
Also a mum & agree with the above comments. Croup 'barking' sound happens when the child is actively coughing (air coming out), whooping cough 'whoop' sound is, as previously mentioned, when the child breathes in after coughing.
That's terrifying. I am reading Pigeon Post by Ransome, and one of the characters has whooping cough, so I decided to learn about it.
Hi Brenda thanks for watching
Thanks for the awareness but what are the possible active antibiotics that can be used for sever whooping cough condition
Would depend on local guidelines. Here in the UK they might suggest clarithromycin or in pregnancy erythromycin - but this again depends on local guidelines. Source: www.nottsapc.nhs.uk/media/1801/whooping-cough.pdf
My sons got the same exact symptom a have been given an astma pump for a reason I don’t know why & a&e told us they can’t do nothing for coughing
i wish i saw this video when i had whooping cough! i was 14 and in the us we got a shot or booster for it at 12 and the year i got mine a lot of the vaccines were faulty and there was an outbreak. it took 3 doctors to diagnose me. the cough sounds in the video we’re very accurate and triggering LOL it was definitely not fun to have and mine lasted about 3 months. coughed so much i fractured my ribs 😬
Wow thankss
No problem
What is the remedy?? Pls help mee😢
There's a wave of whooping cough
Going around Manitoba seen this on the news
Rn I have little cough😷 I just want something to help
My son has whooping cough for almost 2 weeks now he is on antibiotics
Can my 5year old child can undergo vaccine while she's having the symptom? Pls I need advice...the symptoms somehow lessen from more than 5episodes of whoop coughing every night, after taking azithromycin for 3 days it lessen to once to twice episodes anymore... Does she still needs another set of antibiotics, or undergo dtap vaccine...pls enlighten me,coz Dr her in the Phil's...diagnosed her for pneumonia and not pertussis...it's so frustrating on my part...3months is already so so long sufferings for my little child
My middle had this may have again after having it few weeks ago gotta take back soon
Sorry about this.
My child who is 5 years old is suffering from whooping cough at this moment...I'm from the Phil's, and doctors in our country maybe doesn't know about whooping cough..my child is suffering for nearly three months now, and it's so very frustrating going from one doctor to another because the meds they gave doesn't healy child at all.. there's only one doctor lately,a child pulmonologist whom we went for check up that she gave my child zithromax, procaterol,salbutamol nebs...that helps my child to atleast lessen the symptoms to maybe 5% from 9%... Now my problem is t
She have no meds anymore, coz the prescribe days for her was already finish for her meds...what should I do now...can I ask any advise pls...🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hello doc.. I hv smthng to ask .. My daughter 2.6yrs old n she cough sound cough but she hv no fever Or runny nose or cough.. Just smtms she cough cough sound cough.. By any dust or bad smell like tadka.. Wht is this..
Doctor can you please talk about Strap A, as it's definitely become a concern for us parents...and there's not much said about it except children's immune systems were compromised during c*V@D.
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@@jamesodonovan7809 thank you.
No problem :)
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Hi doctor, Can't whooping cough be diagnosed with a blood test? Is it only through throat culture?
Then you’d be testing for bacteremia and/or possibly other types of non related infections/diseases.
This is a respiratory disease hence why we culture it out via nasopharyngeal . Not blood…then it wouldn’t be respiratory.
My Daughter has whooping cough and is in hospital. I hope she gets well quickly.
It’s really a stressful and hard thing for parents if your child has whooping cough.
My older sister had that and it scared the shit out of me because I thought she was going to die because it sounds like a dangerous, chokey kind of cough and she was struggling to breathe. She had whooping cough for like ages 😟
14wks on and iv still got whooping cough. No sign of it going either. Doctors told me it goes after 10wks 😢
ive had this for 3 or 4 months now its horrible. I’ve been having coughing fits with the ‘whoop’ noises. I have often been waking up in the middle of the night coughing sometimes throwing up.
I’m 2 months in. Only really cough to death if someone makes me laugh now.
Thanks Doctor. Is the new vaccine very effective?
I had a long bout of Whooping cough as a child on top of Bronchitis. Through the years my kids were in school and I worked, the bronchitis would return and when it was bad enough, that distinct cough would return as well; does this mean that the Pertussis can be contracted more than once?
you're not immune to whooping cough if you've had it before, although it tends to be less severe the second time around.
Does this mean the pertussis vaccine doesn't confer immunity?
My brother has this. He is like what you said at the 5th minute. We live in Croatia and we were in hospital with him 5 times and all they say is they don't know how to help anymore. We are very scared especially since he is a child with special needs and can't speak to us reasonably. He can't even swallow water.
Hows your brother right now? Hope he's doing well :) please update us.
Hi can you help me please Doctor 😢
Last night I woke up coughing, I sat up and coughed just like this but I couldn't breathe, next thing I know my girlfriend is calling and shaking me to wake up, I have no clue how I got to laying down and asleep. My guess is I blacked out, when I woke up I was tingling and didn't feel like I was in my own body, I felt lost and confused and my girlfriend was so worried she sat watching me all night. I have had a lot of thick white mucus on my chest the last week
Came to see if I have whooping cough. I have all the symptoms. What do I do??
Thank you so much for watching the video and taking time to leave a comment. Unfortunately (and I know this will be frustrating for you), I am unable to give individual medical advice out on this channel. This is because of medico-legal reasons, not knowing your full case, circumstances, and it would be unethical of me to do so otherwise. I have included the general resources I used to make this video in the description box but I have to advise that you speak to your own health provider (e.g. doctor, nurse) so that they can properly assess your case. This is the safest and most ethical advice I can give since this is just intended as a general educational resource. Thanks for understanding.
My husband has this cough and whooping sound afterwards. He struggles to catch his breath at times and it really worries us both. He has been back and fore the doctors and they will not accept its whooping cough. He's had it now for approx 3mths, what can he do?
Hi there,i'm having this for 3 weeks now,but ONLY when i'm sleeping.Is your husband ok now?
Lol I had these kind of caughts so many times in my life.
Any faster way to cure it?
Not that I am aware of.
My two children got that but were thankfully not to bad, my Dr at the time advised me not to get them vaccinted as they had asthma (this was in late 80s) I know now this was wrong advice.
Yes vaccination is really important to try prevent this. Glad they weren't affected too badly.
That is actually still super solid advice. If you read the inserts, a lot of vaccines are contraindicated for kids with asthma and such.
@@lauraharmon7476 Yes I think what's happened last 3 years I tend to believe less is better to put in your body.
@@DoctorODonovanI just read that you don't give medical advice,but here you are saying vaccines are important.
Ofcourse you can have this medical opinion but be careful because to be vaccinated or not, is something you should only discus with your own doktor who knows your medical record.
@@ivodepivo21advice to vaccinate is not classed as 'medical advice' it's a common sense public health and safety programme. It's like advising not to jump off a bridge as it's bad for your health or wear a seatbelt in case you have a car accident. Asthma is no longer a contraindication for childhood vaccinations. But for specific case-by-case advice, you would need to talk to your own doctor.
I have a small cough and my mom said I might have this. Bro I do NOT have this💀💀
This video has helped so much, as soon as the 3rd sound example played my mum exclaimed it sounded like my cough that ive had for about 2 weeks and not getting better. Theyve had it too, but i seem to have it worse despite being the youngest 😅
Probably because it effects children worse than adults
I'm 15 years old and I have this whooping cough more than 3 weeks and it's not recovering..... Can u please tell me what to do next and the treatment of this........
Please reply as fast as possible....... Due to this I can't go to school and I can't give exams and tests in my school bcoz of vomitting after cough......
Please help me 🥺
I am sorry but for medico-legal and ethical reasons I can't give individual clinical advice on this channel. This is designed as a general education channel. Please consult your doctor or health provider for individual questions and concerns. I hope you found the video informative nontheless. Best wishes.
Sounds soooo scary. :(
Hope the video helped
Hi, 30 november, 2023, I strongly do believe this is spreaading in San diego Trolleys, there are lots of homelss coughing bad, many sleep in trolleys, To keep warm, I dont blame them. San diego USA,and Tijuana mexico , share a border, millions crosss daily back and fort. I used the trolley taht week returne here to mexico oct 17, 2023 , with some bad cold, but it develop next day. or maximun 3 days prior I used trolley earlier. in less then 5 days catched an odd flu like cold, then the couging turn badly for weeks , I stayed home 20-25 days, when I went to see doctor, I was told What I had was an acute FAringitis, but the sounds were like the ones here on this video. Doctor check my lungs, NO bronquitis all clear. I told her before, exhaling was in phases, I got tire just talking, so I stop talking, I slowly then exhale, to relax the muscle, sleep sittting down , with lots of pillows. Also the wind felt cold always, I kept covered.
May 31 2024 i have been seeing a lot of cases recently, especially in schools students cough non stop san diego area
0:11 rip headphone users
Sorry if this hurt your ears
Im pregnant and my gynecologists said i should take the vaccine for my unborn baby but i don't want to do it...i ask him is my unborn baby not well and he said my baby is very well....if my baby is well why should I take the vaccine....don't know the reason why I should take the vaccine...I'm even scared to take...please explain things to me thanks
They say they are doing it as a preventative measure but yeah vaccines are so not good for us and cause all sorts of side effects too so it's really hard to make that call
0:10
i don’t get why its called whooping cough when it sounds like a long gasp
Have You Covered Pneumonia Yet?
Not yet but I will soon 🙂
@@DoctorODonovan Thank You Bud, I Just Know That I Aint Got Whooping Cough
I am so annoyed that I was coughing that bad for 2 weeks and my family thought my idea that it might be whooping cough was stupid .-. MONTHS LATER AND IM STILL FREAKING COUGHING, though not as bad. I suspect the reason it got so bad for me is cause I smoke. Dont even lecture me on it, i find it very obnoxious
It is pronounced 'hooping' cough 😊
My kid is vaccinated. My kid is sick. I was comparing cough sounds. The coughs in this video are heart breaking. No my kid's cough
Typically *whoooop*
Red face, bulging eyes during whoooop, may result in fits [brain hypoxia], lung or palate rupture.
Azithromycin works well
Thanks - good point.
Thank you doctor 💊 for sharing inspirational whoop 👍💯
Thanks a lot
Pleasure 😊