Whooping cough can only suspect in the transition to the next stage of the disease - the time of paroxysmal cough with a characteristic reprises. During an attack of cough gradually becomes stronger - dry, irritated cough is frequent and intense. The child's condition worsens, the skin develops blue nasolabial triangle, the child becomes purplish red. And often in the resolution of the attack at the height of the next episode may occur or vomiting caused by overstimulation reflex respiratory center and the respiratory mucosa, or possible loss of consciousness. Then the patient begins a sharp breath, resembling a sob, and the attack ends.
Such a flow coughing develops only in whooping cough, so the appearance of more than two episodes of this cough is necessary to conduct laboratory examination of sputum or mucus from the respiratory tract obtained by coughing. The study itself is the fact that at the time of the attack the patient tray laboratory dish with a special nutrient medium suitable for the detection of the pathogen.
You should never treat whooping cough as a disease that is not dangerous for the patient's life - when an attack is possible reflex apnea, heart. The attack can cause bleeding and development of bronchial or pulmonary respiratory system, bronchi and alveoli of the gap, and the younger the patient, the greater the likelihood of developing complications of whooping cough.
The disease gradually goes without antibiotics - after being hit by toxins produced by the causative agent of whooping cough in the respiratory center, it takes time for their termination.