...feeling better....
...tired, but better.
Recovering from a bout of whooping cough. Took antibiotics, am no longer contagious and have returned to the work force after five days of quarantine.
When it's time for the next tetanus vaccine I'm getting the pertussis vaccine along with it. This is the second time in five years I've had whooping cough. Guess my immune system isn't very good at generating pertussis antibodies.
If it's been more than ten years since your last pertussis booster, get reimmunized.
Whooping cough is sneaky: it's most infectious during the first stage when it feels like nothing but a cold, and the paroxysms--its violent coughing spells--develop as the 'cold' abates. It's nasty business for infants, the elderly, the pregnant and people with fragile bones (thankfully, I've gotten nothing worse than a really sore, tender ribcage from coughing so hard, but people have actually broken ribs during paroxysms).
Fortunately, the cats and dog don't run away no matter how hard Mom barks. :)
Recovering from a bout of whooping cough. Took antibiotics, am no longer contagious and have returned to the work force after five days of quarantine.
When it's time for the next tetanus vaccine I'm getting the pertussis vaccine along with it. This is the second time in five years I've had whooping cough. Guess my immune system isn't very good at generating pertussis antibodies.
If it's been more than ten years since your last pertussis booster, get reimmunized.
Whooping cough is sneaky: it's most infectious during the first stage when it feels like nothing but a cold, and the paroxysms--its violent coughing spells--develop as the 'cold' abates. It's nasty business for infants, the elderly, the pregnant and people with fragile bones (thankfully, I've gotten nothing worse than a really sore, tender ribcage from coughing so hard, but people have actually broken ribs during paroxysms).
Fortunately, the cats and dog don't run away no matter how hard Mom barks. :)