Pertussis (whooping cough) is aptly called “The Hundred Day Cough” (bai re ke) in Chinese medicine. Vaccinations against pertussis contained in the DPT (diphtheriapertussis-tetanus) shot have reduced the incidence in the United States significantly, but parental rejection of the vaccination has resulted in a reemergence of the illness throughout the country. Both my city and state, Boulder, Col...

☆ Como citar este artigo: Korppi M. Whooping cough – still a challenge. ☆☆ Ver artigo de Ferronato AE et al. nas páginas 549-53. diagnosticadas como casos de coqueluche, e posteriormen-te transmitiram a bactéria B. pertussis aos neonatos das famílias. Durante as duas últimas décadas do século passa-do, muitos pais recusaram a vacinação contra pertussis, e a incidência de coqueluche mais uma vez...

Eight hundred and thirteen children who had had whooping cough when under 5 years of age in the 1977-9 epidemic were compared with a control group roughly four and a half years later, each child being matched by age and sex and from the same class in school. The index group showed long term respiratory sequelae of whooping cough-namely, deterioration in lung function, increase in respiratory sy...

a letter from Dr. Cole, New-Zealand, suggesting the internal use of Carbolic Acid in whooping cough, and having two cases at the time under my care, I was induced to try the remedy which in both acted as a " specific." Case I.?A little girl jet. two years. The acid was administered in ? grain doses with Glycerine every two hours ; at the end of 24 hours the symptoms were much less severe, and t...

Few subjects in child health have caused so much uncertainty and controversy in recent years as whooping-cough immunisation, its benefits and its dangers. A set of reports' from the Committee on the Safety of Medicines and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) give the best information so far on this difficult subject, and provide definite answers to at least some of the qu...