Children of preschool age have this infectious disease generally. The virus (gram-negative stick) by air from other recently infected child is transmitted at close contact. Let's understand what is whooping cough at children and as to treat it.
What whooping cough is dangerous to children by
Inflammation mucous the upper airways happens almost instantly. And if not to begin treatment, then the infection will very quickly develop, causing serious consequences:
- oppression of work of the respiratory center;
- convulsive fits of coughing of allergic character;
- damage of the central nervous system.
Whooping cough symptoms at the child
At the beginning of infection the child feels weakness and an indisposition. At first it has a cold and cough, at the same time the voice becomes hoarse. Within a week the symptoms begin to accrue. Cough becomes more and more dry and deep. The same dry rattles appear in lungs. Temperature at the same time small can also keep about 10 days.
The farther, the more fits of coughing begin to gain convulsive character where the short-term delay of breath is observed. It can provoke a giperemirovaniye, puffiness of the person. At a deep breath after cough the child can bite till it bleeds a language tip.
The organism of small children is not always capable to cope with similar attacks, proving the following phenomena:
- nasal bleedings;
- involuntary defecation and urine emission;
- vomiting.
In 2 weeks the attacks of painful cough amplify, become frequent, long and heavy. Over time will decline and can disappear on the 6th week absolutely. But it does not mean that the infection left – it can take other form (for example, bronkhiolit or pneumonia).
Diagnosis of whooping cough at children
Not to confuse whooping cough with trivial ORZ or trakheobronkhity, the doctor needs constant observation of the sick child. Watching the nature of convulsive cough, in parallel conduct researches.
For example, during an attack before a mouth of the patient hold a cup Understand with the special environment to take crops of a phlegm. The diagnosis can be made on the basis of this bacteriological research and blood tests. In later terms the doctor is based on serological researches: reactions of agglutination and RSK.
How to treat whooping cough at children
Depending on weight of a disease of the kid isolate or at home (in an initial stage), or hospitalize in clinic (at the progressing form). Begin treatment with antibiotics, in parallel appointing protivokoklyushny gamma globulin.
At strong fits of coughing spazmolitichesky medicines are recommended (like a papaverine). If the phlegm departs badly, the doctor appoints special inhalations with use of enzymes proteolytic. At severe forms of the patient it is necessary to contain in oxygen chambers.
How to protect the child from whooping cough
To protect the child from similar tests, it needs in advance to be imparted, using vaccine AKDS. It will help to make active the immune system of an organism. But anyway, if you know that the child was in contact with sick whooping cough, it is desirable for it to enter at once gamma globulin.