100 day cough aka Whooping cough

Yes, recognise this from DD3 and family. Coughing painful and exhausting. Luckily they live too far to visit easily 😂.
But not sure what you mean by aka whooping cough. No whooping. Is there a connection.

You do not necessarily whoop when you have whooping cough, although it is common. When my two had whooping cough as children, despite vaccinations, one whooped once and the other was sick once but it is marked by paroxysms of coughing.

This link talks mainly about the illness in relation to children but many adults are getting it as well - and that includes DH and I. www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/100-day-cough-reaches-peak-31646193

winterwhite go on the NHS site and it will explain whooping cough. Many would have had the jab against when we where young along with polio drops on a lump of sugar and the smallpox jab which everyone who had has a scar as it was several little needles jabbed into your arm at once. The above killed and disabled may children and adults. Have you ever heard of an iron lung . It was a machine polio patients where put into with just their head sticking out.

Unfortunately things that where eradicated in first world countries are being brought back by people from countries that people can't afford to have the vaccines for . TB is in on the rise . So is meningitis in uni's .
I am 65 I remember people having all the above one of my cousins had meningitis but we didn't realise how serious it was luckily he survived he's nearly 60 now.

And yet people still don't have the vaccines that are available free in this country. They don't just protect us but those people because of their health problems can't have them.

DD is 24 weeks pregnant and recently had the whooping cough vaccine to protect the baby. I think it was introduced about 10 years ago for pregnant women.
I hope you feel better soon as*M0nica*, constant coughing isn't fun.

DS had whooping cough when in yr2 and gave it to his dad and his best friend. Our locum GP wouldn’t do the throat swab but his friend’s GP did. DH would collapse from coughing and I was constantly having to sponge carpets. They used to suggest going to the coast - didn’t the three sisters in Ballet Shoes go to the seaside with whooping cough?

We had whooping couch when I was 5 - just started school. My mum had been trying to wean my youngest sister off breast-feeding, but had to start again. Interesting that it used to be suggested that going to the coast would help. As it happened, we lived on the coast of the Firth of Clyde so that may be the reason I don't remember being very poorly with it. It was followed a month or so later by measles. What a year that was - especially for my poor mum who had to deal with three small daughters.

I appreciate people's memories of this problem but I was really seeking information about this winter's spike and it's effect on adults.

We are 2 adults with this long running wretched cough and accompanying feeling of unwellness and wondering how much longer it is going last.

Not whooping cough, but my DD works for the medical centre of our main university and they are very concerned about a spike in measles cases so much so that the staff have been asked to check their vaccination status.

I've now had it for over a month .
I felt off for a week then , truly dreadful - gasping for breath .
I nearly went to A and E over that weekend as I thought that I had a chest infection with asthma .
Now it's cough , cough , cough with a pounding headache and constant tiredness .
I'm trying to tidy up today .
It's such slow progress .
It's tidy for an hour , sit down and then try to do another hour until the cough , the headache and fatigue starts .
I was invited out today and I couldn't face it .
My friend drove me insane with her texts not understanding that I'm feeling unwell .
Someone selling something just rang the bell and I could feel tears beginning .

I had whooping cough as a child despite being vaccinated and was seriously ill .
Exactly the same happened with my daughter .
We are both asthmatic .

Esmay you truly have my sympathy. DH, who has a damaged lung anyway has been struggling to breathe, shaking and unable to eat, too ill to notice the lack of energy, but I have that.

You put it so well
It's such slow progress. It's tidy for an hour , sit down and then try to do another hour until the cough , the headache and fatigue starts

Christmas in ten days and I still haven't done my Christmas cards.