Symptoms Of Whooping Cough

Whooping cough is an infection that is caught by breathing in aerosolized droplets that contain the bacteria, Bordetella pertussis. The disease typically lasts anywhere from a month to almost three months. The incubation period lasts 7-21 days. Then the disease progresses through three phases. A catarrhal phase, paroxysmal phase, and convalescent phase. The symptoms of whooping cough present differently in the first two phases. The catarrhal phase presents symptoms that seem like a typical upper respiratory tract infection. However, in the paroxysmal phase presents a paroxysmal cough. This cough is a rapidly repeating cough, that sometimes causes patients to vomit. The coughing will always causes the patient to struggle taking deep breaths