Doctor explains WHOOPING COUGH plus examples of REAL SOUNDS | Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & more!

[@desu38]

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.

[@sooofunny37]

same-there's an outbreak in NC and a few other states

[@karlierouzer2471]

Same!!

[@simbamak6181]

Who is here in 2024 following the recent whooping cough health scare? Give me a like. Very helpful information here which can save life.

[@DrODonovan]

Glad this was helpful

[@Snaxolotly]

Me- as myself and my two boys are sickish with random fits of coughing. We were all up, all night last night, taking turns coughing our eyeballs out. Uggg - and I just saw today that whooping cough is 3x more than this time last year.

[@katelynnvens1974]

Here because I sadly have it 😔

[@kensaid6049]

My son had now 3 weeks he's had antibiotics 1 week and still has it. I myself have just developed it. I went ti a n e they gave me antibiotic fir a week. I'm 64 I have angina and afib and in the past pneumonia , chest sepsis , pericarditis, latent tb. I've just started the course today. Coughing real bad barking like a dog, sore throat and lungs feel sore with the heaving.

[@annawawrzonek8336]

Week 3 here, I am literally dying, have enough😢😡

[@ryanstrawn3387]

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 KZbin and listened to the child sound. Can’t imagine the suffering of the parents. It almost brought tears to my eyes.

[@Jxhsxn]

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 👍

[@Hovsep231]

You still coughing ? In my case i still coughing After 1 mouth only when i talk to folks.

[@Jxhsxn]

@@Hovsep231 yes but only like once or twice a day and it usually only happens when iam laughing or talking for a long time

[@theotothefuture]

How are you doing now? Got it a couple months ago and I still can laugh normally with my throat getting stressed and eventually feeling like coughing. No whooping anymore though just a super sensitive throat. I feel bad for people that get this and are prone to panicking.

[@sallytattersall3357]

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.

[@Hovsep231]

How you fell now, you still coughing ?

[@sallytattersall3357]

@@Hovsep231 hey, thanks for asking! - week 16 - so much better but still a cough a couple of times a day! Have you had it?

[@Andreyfitty]

@@sallytattersall3357how do you feel now???

[@SaVie2024]

I’m in this situation now and I’ve been through hell every moment. Its after my dental treatment exactly 24 hours ago. First symptom is sudden body pain, makes you weak, let you sleep and it wakes you up a bad cough that drives you crazy!

[@caitaldrich]

Felt this

[@VHBulls]

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.

[@birdieloo6168]

One thing about nighttime coughing you might want to consider is that they’re often a result of allergies and/or asthma. (Asthma and allergies often go hand in hand, too)

[@tlcferguson8243]

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.

[@DrODonovan]

A pleasure as always

[@oluwemimoolatoye5561]

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

[@DrODonovan]

Sorry to hear this wishing you the best

[@judyk2987]

High brow/ Low brow? Disease does not know your socioeconomic status

[@JennifuhhGilardi]

Dude sounds so out of touch with reality

[@m.935]

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.

[@ivodepivo21]

Same here! How are you doing now?

[@tejastepanovicbrodschneide5743]

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

[@ricardop781]

Hi there,same here but ONLY when i'm sleeping.You are from Europe?What your doctor said?

[@tejastepanovicbrodschneide5743]

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.

[@Music-um4kq]

I also have it now. Literally thought I was going to die in the night as my throat seemed to shut tight. I got through that choking part by breathing through my nose as I couldn't through my mouth. I have been to the Dr's who were at a loss as to what it was. I discovered it and made my own diagnosis after reading about the 100 day cough

[@Agito928]

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.

[@DrODonovan]

Glad it helped! Thanks for the feedback

[@Mistyxfox1234]

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.

[@DrODonovan]

Glad you found the video helpful

[@MagMagik_]

I got a whooping cough i am 31 years old, I've been 3 times to the ER and they didn't even do a PCR test only when i mentioned the PCR and paid for it i got diagnosed and maybe if at the first time i got the PCR test i would heal faster, i got antibiotics, now it's been 6 weeks and i am still coughing with whooping noise, when doing sudden moves, or doing something fast, even change in the temperature can "irritate" and cause coughing, 3 times i lost consciousness for around 3 seconds, few times i vomited too. Take care of yourself guys, trust me this is worse than anything i had and my immune system is great and i never get sick... Stay safe guys

[@TmHudsonArt]

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.

[@maryboucher-pue70]

Prayers for you !

[@regaliaretailfashionmerch4314]

💯 Your chest feels clear too, not like "normal " cough, but when the attacks, bouts, fits come you're done. It's a NIGHTMARE. BUT extremely hard to explain to others. Nobody who's not had it can understand our condition. It's not like a regular infection that can be treated easily by medication either. It just lasts a long time, goes on and on. That's scary because cough and cold are not usually like this at all. The time period from infection to cure is so long. You crave natural sources of healing like ginger, you're body craves it, cough syrup helps suppress the SCARY fits lasting hours, which prevents rib damage, muscle pain I'm still recovering, started coughing in July, undiagnosed

[@regaliaretailfashionmerch4314]

Sleeping sitting up, sitting up to prevent coughing helps a lot, even I thought I got a cold at first and it'll go away but I sure was wrong, very wrong

[@Em-qn8cl]

Start having high dose vit c (ascorbic acid) this will help immensely

[@pedrovasconcelos7267]

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!

[@DrODonovan]

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?

[@pedrovasconcelos7267]

@@DrODonovan Sure! When it comes to graduating new Medical Students Brazil only loses to India! I'm sure many people would enjoy watching it :)

[@isrulius]

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.

[@markorjak294]

Plant soup can treat asthma. There will be no recurrence in the future.

[@cchirsch14]

​@@isruliuswhoah unnecessary

[@barrymorgan4858]

I have had it for 2 months now in my 50s , it’s frankly the worst cough I have ever had and the choking part is the worst where momentarily you feel like you could stop breathing and die ! Thankfully it is a brief moment but it is persistent. This video is great wish I’d seen it and gone to the doctors in the 1st week of having it and would advise a swab test to be done in 1st week. Cough gradually becomes less violent, choking feeling went after about 4-6 weeks, worst was waking up in night in 2-3rd week and coughing. 4-6 weeks had a really painful feeling when swallowing behind Adam’s apple. Also horrible tickling feeling in throat for a few weeks but not wanting to induce a cough to avoid choking, yawning, laughing after 4 weeks caused coughing. Am now 2 months in and coughing much rarer now but have developed for a week or so very tight asthma (which I suffer from mildly during certain times of the year) would be interested to hear if anyone developed asthma symptoms after 2 months ? Ventolin works to calm it.

[@regaliaretailfashionmerch4314]

Hello there, I'm 34, have had whooping cough since late July, August 2024, undiagnosed, but learnt about it today. I guess since the "most violent of episodes" ended day before and lasted over a month , I'm in recovery /last phase now, will get tested for asthma after this because of your comment.. but don't feel asthmatic issues as of now, fear of another coughing fit is the only obstacle to normal breathing.. Deep breathing, cough syrup, ginger intake, and sitting up really help prevent and cure muscles damage caused by fits of severe coughing

[@NaGiSa-hehe]

The fact I started coughing really badly yesterday and my coughs sound like this is terrifying

[@DrODonovan]

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.

[@NaGiSa-hehe]

@@DrODonovan I actually did see a doctor yesterday and gave me medicine so hopefully I’ll be alright

[@MatchaCocoaDog]

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?

[@candacemaitland9450]

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

[@vandermax7644]

Croup is a barking sound. Whooping cough is a rapid cough with breath sucked in. Completely different.

[@tamsinboldick7035]

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.

[@AlexEspinal-b9t]

Thank you soo much. I always thought that the whooping was referring to the sound of a whoop this was very helpful. I was worried.

[@DrODonovan]

Glad it helped!

[@Ladytanyahyde]

Thank you for this vital information.

[@DrODonovan]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ha3we]

thank you sir for this video ,specially for the infectious stage of the disease. 👍

[@DrODonovan]

You’re very welcome

[@anadanayausten]

Thank you! This video is very helpful to me.

[@DrODonovan]

Glad to hear this

[@temtuapati]

Short and Sweet; mainly focusing on the main points

[@consuelabananahamak]

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.

[@MeLeoanne]

Thank you from Sweden...🙏🙂

[@DrODonovan]

Welcome! 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

[@tsunamiiwinterz-px7oz]

I had it about a month ago. Its very annoying. I got so tired of it I just started drinking huge amounts of ginger tea I made, and eating a lot of spoonfuls honey. Advil helped too.

[@robin2012ism]

Excellent presentation. You know how to make a helpful video 💪

[@DrODonovan]

You're very welcome.

[@Tullian100]

Thank you for the very helpful video doctor. From watching the video, and reading the comments, I think I probably have this cough, although it has not yet been diagnosed by my GP. I am awaiting a blood test. Must be 5 weeks since my first coughing began. Antibiotics and an inhaler may have helped me slightly, but only just. I’ve not read any comments about anyone having a hoarse/croaky voice. Is this also a symptom please?

[@Tullian100]

Now confirmed as whooping cough.

[@JessicaMcColloch]

@@Tullian100Has anything helped to decrease your symptoms?

[@Tullian100]

@ Hiya, have to be honest, I tried loads of stuff but very little seemed to help when I was at my worst. I had a steroid inhaler, codeine and antibiotics. Also tried a Chinese cough remedy, breathing in steam, vitamin C tablets, honey and lemon, plain hot water, cough sweets. Oh what a nightmare! 8 weeks now, but much better than I was a few weeks back. Good luck. Worst thing I’ve ever had.

[@JessicaMcColloch]

@@Tullian100I’m glad you’re doing better! I’m sorry to hear not much helped though. My twin daughters are dealing with what we believe to be whooping cough. Those coughing fits are absolutely brutal. One seems to be a bit worse than the other and has experienced apnea so bad her cheeks turn blue during a coughing fit. Both have coughed so hard they’ve vomited. I feel so awful for them and have tried SO many different things (antibiotics, steroids, both natural and pharma cough syrups, plus all the vitamins…quercetin, zinc, vitamin d3, high doses of vitamin c, magnesium…and nightly mullein tea w/ local honey). I agree it’s brutal. Glad you’re better at 8 weeks!! We’re at 4 weeks…

[@Tullian100]

@ ​​⁠ Thank you very much. So sorry to hear all that, it must be even worse seeing your children suffering through it. I’m so relieved that my boys didn’t get it from me. I see you’ve tried loads of different remedies too, it really does make you desperate to try more ideas, when nothing really helps enough. Think patience is the only thing that got me through it ultimately. Horrible illness. Had a chest X-ray weeks ago, but a blood test only confirmed it as whooping cough this week. Hope your twins get better very soon.

[@trytoplaypiano]

Thank you, Sir!

[@poshiteryid-wu9rx]

Hi doctor, Can't whooping cough be diagnosed with a blood test? Is it only through throat culture?

[@novaduh]

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.

[@barrymorgan4858]

Yes can be tested by blood test - I did a test after 4 weeks of having it and it couldn’t say whether I had had it, I believe it will only show if you have the test in the first week or so of having it, otherwise I would recommend going down the swab in nose / throat route to get a more definitive answer

[@pam164]

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.

[@DrODonovan]

Yes vaccination is really important to try prevent this. Glad they weren't affected too badly.

[@lauraharmon7476]

That is actually still super solid advice. If you read the inserts, a lot of vaccines are contraindicated for kids with asthma and such.

[@pam164]

@@lauraharmon7476 Yes I think what's happened last 3 years I tend to believe less is better to put in your body.

[@ivodepivo21]

​@@DrODonovanI 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.

[@tai_pbrn667]

​@@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.

[@egverlander]

Very well presented. Thank you.

[@superstar7184]

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.

[@xshortiixx6425]

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

[@olukoyaopeyemioluwaseun8559]

Same here continuous cough and difficult inhaling

[@DrsundasMD]

Thank you doctor 💊 for sharing inspirational whoop 👍💯

[@DrODonovan]

Thanks a lot

[@DrsundasMD]

Pleasure 😊

[@shockdoc1]

Great advice.

[@petemc5070]

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.

[@rebecamatika2454]

Exactly what I am going through. It's been a month now and I'm under management with occupational health dept

[@gemmakennedy2761]

Thank you for this helpful video. My 15 month old has a cough that sounds a bit like the first clip sometimes, especially after falling asleep at night or when breastfeeding. She has had it for a few weeks but also has has runny nose on and off/bit of sweats and gets upset when coughing wakes her. Took to docs for checkup but she said she was ok. Now i realise the cough sounds a bit like this one. What do you advise? I feel she has had it long enough now that shes getting through it herself...if this is what it is.

[@faizansab409]

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.

[@curiouscharacter1]

Great, helpful video. Actually though, the point in the video with the "whooping cough sounds" is more accurately at 2:13.

[@FullcircleDMV]

Great video!

[@DrODonovan]

Thanks!

[@GlazersOut1989]

I’m on week 4-5 now. It’s gotten slightly better and the green phlegm has now become a clear, thick phlegm. Starting to get really bad headaches from coughing so intensely now. General breathing is fine though despite being asthmatic. A crazy infection for sure.

[@GlazersOut1989]

Fairly certain mine is turning into pneumonia

[@shogeelicious2221]

Doctor is it okay to get an iron infusion two days after getting the vaccine for the whooping cough?

[@raychgitau9863]

Mine started 2 weeks ago. Thought it was hay fever. Last night I woke up choking and coughing so bad that I thought I was going to die. Called my gp this morning and while talking to her went to a coughing spellnwith whooping so bad she almost called emergency service. I am impressed she was able to suspect pertussis when she heard me on the phone. Antibiotic started , I havent slept the last two days. The coughing spells are the worst . I peed myself yesterday when the cough started on my way to the toilet. There needs to he more awareness.

[@regaliaretailfashionmerch4314]

Yes, the urination caused by fits of coughing is THE WORST. There is literally 0 awareness on this infection at present. It takes so long to simmer down. The chocking, the episodes, the loss of sleep because you're up coughing, sleeping in a sitting up posture I learnt about it today, till yesterday I thought I'm about to die soon Take care

[@rebeccalauren4904]

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.

[@danielbaxter4639]

I hope you got better soon after. What was the outcome of this?

[@g.k.s.8336]

Very helpful and thank you doctor. I developed this cough beginning September and here in Australia is strat of spring. I went to doctors already 4 times! Is this cough related to allergies??

[@Fatima7-10]

How can I suspect a streptococcal infection by cough sound to protect my daughter from endocarditis if there's recurrent URTI

[@Hovsep231]

THANK YOU Doctor for your explantions, i have this problem, just could you tell me please if that cough stop once for all After 4 or 6 month definitely ?

[@chalee605]

Thankyou so much

[@DrODonovan]

Most welcome 😊

[@roxyhart3247]

Daughter has had a persistent cough since sept 2023 with runny nose and intermittent wheezing. But gp and A&E medics didn't seem bothered had to fight for a Dr to see her when the A&E Dr eventually did see her adv to keep in for obs but no treatment given so frustrating

[@omadjourney]

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.

[@jamesodonovan7809]

Hi - please see this resource: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5mwpKmZacinrKc

[@omadjourney]

@@jamesodonovan7809 thank you.

[@DrODonovan]

No problem :)

[@sharmeenhusain7580]

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[@sobekstephanie]

Thanks this is very helpful!

[@DrODonovan]

👍🏼👍🏼

[@jeejajayakrishnan249]

Thank you for the video. Its very helpful identifying my 1 yo’s whooping cough.

[@DrODonovan]

A pleasure

[@ladylindahands7042]

My middle had this may have again after having it few weeks ago gotta take back soon

[@DrODonovan]

Sorry about this.

[@theotothefuture]

Got this a couple months ago. My throat is still sensitive that I can't even laugh the way I used to or I'll start coughing. I miss laughing heartily 😢 Will my throat ever be that same?

[@haidenrojano5985]

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 😬

[@kelechiephraim9397]

Thanks for the awareness but what are the possible active antibiotics that can be used for sever whooping cough condition

[@DrODonovan]

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

[@campakadasi9506]

Thank you very clear

[@DrODonovan]

You are welcome!

[@Sumi..editsss]

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.

[@adammillsindustries.]

I’m 2 months in. Only really cough to death if someone makes me laugh now.

[@frankievlogs1512]

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?

[@ricardop781]

Hi there,i'm having this for 3 weeks now,but ONLY when i'm sleeping.Is your husband ok now?

[@magician2958]

Thanks, doc

[@DrODonovan]

Most welcome!

[@reiroll5]

0:11 rip headphone users

[@DrODonovan]

Sorry if this hurt your ears

[@lilianahernandez7756]

Good information

[@DrODonovan]

Thanks

[@andreamcillan2431]

Came to see if I have whooping cough. I have all the symptoms. What do I do??

[@DrODonovan]

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.

[@emmatabladillo5764]

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...🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@virgologyy]

Is it possible to have whooping cough with milder symptoms? I was vaccinated as a baby but didn't get a booster. Now I think I have it, but the symptoms are milder and short-lasting. I had a dry cough and runny nose for about 1.5 weeks, which I initially thought was allergic asthma. Inhalers and antihistamines gave slight relief, but I then developed severe coughing fits, especially when lying down, with no vomiting but difficulty breathing and gagging. I was coughing exactly like in the video, making the whooping sound. I started antibiotics in the third week, and after four days, the symptoms are less severe. I'm curious if this could be whooping cough, as it seems milder than typical cases, and I can't find another illness with similar symptoms. I haven’t gotten tested as I understand after 3 weeks it is not very detectable, especially in adults. FYI the one week that I had this paroxysmal coughing it was probably one of the worst experiences I felt like I would die from choking. Also I was so isolated as I couldn’t do any physical activity cause they triggered the coughing and couldn’t go out with friends coughing every 10 minutes. I got a lot of worrying looks too. My heart goes out to anyone experiencing this, even if my case is unrelated. Coughing is quite literally the worst.

[@IsmaelByrd]

its weird / interesting, we can be subjected to all kinds of gore and violence, but this sound sent shivers down my spine, i had to turn it off... maybe being a parent with kids who had asthma. But i couldn't listen to it

[@GlazersOut1989]

I’ve got asthma and got WC. Doesn’t affect the asthma too much tbh. If anything more encouragement to actually take my preventative haha

[@brendareed8412]

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.

[@DrODonovan]

Hi Brenda thanks for watching

[@lucile_lovely999]

Just noticed that a child whooping cough sounds EXACTLY like 4 year old me when I would be having an asthma attack.

[@Rene-uz3eb]

Pertussis seems to be misunderstood, at least when I look at this paper. Only 0.01-0.1% are symptomatic, and up to 10% of the population (netherlands) get infected. Ie almost nobody gets the cough from it, and there is no 'vaccine herd immunity'. Because for one, the childhood vaccine wears off after about 5 years. Given the super high asymptomatic cases, almost certainly the symptomatics are severely malnourished. No studies are done, other than they found most cases were someone having mutations in the vitamin D receptor. Association of Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphism with Susceptibility to Symptomatic Pertussis, 2016

[@jerriefisher792]

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?

[@DrODonovan]

you're not immune to whooping cough if you've had it before, although it tends to be less severe the second time around.

[@Canadahasfallen88]

Does this mean the pertussis vaccine doesn't confer immunity?

[@VioletPNG]

What if i have all the symptoms but no whoop coughing noise?

[@liviemillie6455]

I thought it was only a childhood disease. I caught it and it's absolute torture (I also have mild asthma). It's costing me many days of college and I don't even have the most severe case. Please get re-vaccinated and don't make the same mistake I did.

[@TooMuchGunSmoke]

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

[@paulinamzya5533]

My baby boy 6m old just caught this 😢night time is like nightmare 😫 he's just finished his antibiotics, what else can help him?he don't want eating because he's sick after that

[@JasonGarland-s5p]

So i had to wait until i was 27 to have my first whooping cough! Just got the whooping sound. Throwing up a lot. Cant eat much. Flu symptoms but this hit me so hard

[@claire6224]

I use a spoon of pure honey it’s sooth the throat and remove mucus in the chest it’s work I give it to my 2 Malteses before bed and they walk up in the morning the whooping cough are gone . In winter keep the house warm the right temperature. A freezing house will make it worst . Keep warm many in Australia walk around with gym clothes especially legging and light sport shoes when they should be wearing thick winter trousers , jumpers , jackets and boots like the old days to go outdoors and to work not walk around in gym clothes. You wear winter clothes all winter not only when it too late you are sick you grab only a jackets or scarfs it won’t work keep warm in winter , Autumn and Spring not only when you are sick. A freezing house will make your family sick all winter .

[@Arinera]

I just had a colleage at work (Switzerland) who contracted it, she was coughing so hard she fractured a rib.

[@marabookstagram]

My kids are vaccinated, but have been coughing so much this summer.

[@jaroslavkorbel8385]

The vaccine has around 75% successful immunisation rate.

[@MiaParadzik]

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.

[@njay3756]

Hows your brother right now? Hope he's doing well :) please update us.

[@ritadementyeva5620]

My son was vaccinate and still got it badly . 5 weeks now and still bloody coughing!!

[@Replica-Airgun-Lovers]

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

[@DevinPlayzYT2007]

2:35

[@johnmcortese]

Thank you

[@mounasrin151]

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..

[@ezatullahahmadzai5188]

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.

[@emmatabladillo5764]

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

[@juliebutler7549]

14wks on and iv still got whooping cough. No sign of it going either. Doctors told me it goes after 10wks 😢

[@atin8584]

My son has whooping cough for almost 2 weeks now he is on antibiotics

[@Notella327]

I tested positive to whooping cough but don't sound like how it's supposed to but my coughs come on randomly

[@Selesady]

I am 25! Why am I getting this. Have been down for over a month. I so exhausted

[@carolined5923]

Im surprised that in all these videos on YT. No one mentioned high dose vitamin C it lessens the severity of the cough.

[@jaroslavkorbel8385]

Not just any vitamin C, ascorbic acid / sodium ascorbate works well, look for it online.

[@danielstan6004]

because it does not. It just predisposes patients in developing kidney stones, especially. calcium oxalate stones..

[@caterina39]

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

[@maisieturner1838]

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 😟

[@maheejeevi3922]

What is the remedy?? Pls help mee😢

[@elisangelacastello4702]

Garlic 🧄. Natural antibiotic. Eat it, put it in your ears 👂.

[@sitiulfaturrizqa3555]

Wow thankss

[@DrODonovan]

No problem

[@claire9702]

Thanks Doctor. Is the new vaccine very effective?

[@dulyrobledo5417]

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.

[@paul73818]

May 31 2024 i have been seeing a lot of cases recently, especially in schools students cough non stop san diego area

[@SerajulIslam-rl3uz]

what's medicine 21 years olld

[@eveyohanah9540]

I'd put money on me having whooping cough about 10 years ago. I've never had a cough like it. I wasn't particularly unwell but would have awful coughing fits out of nowhere that would last a good 2 minutes or so and have me ghasping between coughs. Like to the point I'd be walking down the street and would have to stop to have a coughing attack. It went on for weeks. Such a dry cough that eventually went away thankfully but damn.

[@yadneshbansode59]

Any faster way to cure it?

[@DrODonovan]

Not that I am aware of.