I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
I don't get it. What does third world country have to do with this? Did you live in a third world country.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...
Whooping cough, otherwise known as Pertussis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis
And the vaccine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis_vaccine
Importantly, outbreaks do occur in the developed world.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 04, 2018, 03:43:24 PM
I don't get it. What does third world country have to do with this? Did you live in a third world country.
I do now.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:49:42 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 04, 2018, 03:43:24 PM
I don't get it. What does third world country have to do with this? Did you live in a third world country.
I do now.
Incubation is 2-3 weeks, up to 42 days.
In general if you're diagnosed correctly, chances are you're going to be OK
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:49:42 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 04, 2018, 03:43:24 PM
I don't get it. What does third world country have to do with this? Did you live in a third world country.
I do now.
Well, it is Kentucky after all...
/sarc
Our church's youth pastor contracted whooping cough after returning from one of our mission trips to northern Mexico a few years ago, right around the time there was the aforementioned outbreak in the western US. While it's likely he contracted the bacteria in Mexico, it's also quite possible he contracted it in the US before leaving or on the way down.
Quote from: kalvado on January 04, 2018, 03:44:20 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...
But they cause autism! I need my freedom! I even ignore facts! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 04, 2018, 03:59:56 PM
Quote from: kalvado on January 04, 2018, 03:44:20 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...
But they cause autism! I need my freedom! I even ignore facts! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I'm really not trying to get political here, but IIRC, it is a scientific fact that vaccines do
not cause autism, and I am saying that
as an autistic person... and I would really not recommend ignoring vaccines for that reason, because it could potentially be quite dangerous in the end..
But regarding the
actual topic of the thread, I hope you recover easily and quickly, Tim. Best wishes.
You don't have to be a 3rd world country to have outbreaks of whooping cough. There was an outbreak in Seattle schools a couple of years ago. They used to think the vaccine provided lifelong immunity, they found out the hard way that you need a booster shot. Plus some kids never got even one shot.
I've heard of several cases in Kentucky over the past year.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Does it sometimes feel like a tickle in the back of your throat? If so, I am thinking I may have whooping cough.
My school recently gave out a letter because someone, probably unvaccinated, got whooping cough and went to school with it. They would be giving letters to people who had come in contact with that person, and nobody I know got those letters.
Whooping cough vaccinations do not last a lifetime. In fact, they usually crap out by later teen years. When my wife was in high school, her school had an outbreak of it. All but one of the people with it had been vaccinated earlier in life for it. I don't know if the one who hadn't was the vector for it.
Quote from: inkyatari on January 05, 2018, 08:56:20 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Does it sometimes feel like a tickle in the back of your throat? If so, I am thinking I may have whooping cough.
Maybe a little. It features horrible coughing fits that leave one gasping for air.
Quote from: SectorZ on January 05, 2018, 11:43:40 AM
Whooping cough vaccinations do not last a lifetime. In fact, they usually crap out by later teen years.
Which is why you're supposed to get a booster every ten years, which you also get with a tetanus shot (it's called TDAP). In Utah, I believe students entering the seventh grade are required to get a TDAP vaccine before school starts.
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on January 04, 2018, 06:13:40 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 04, 2018, 03:59:56 PM
Quote from: kalvado on January 04, 2018, 03:44:20 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...
But they cause autism! I need my freedom! I even ignore facts! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I'm really not trying to get political here, but IIRC, it is a scientific fact that vaccines do not cause autism, and I am saying that as an autistic person... and I would really not recommend ignoring vaccines for that reason, because it could potentially be quite dangerous in the end..
It was later discovered that guy who did the initial study that found a link to autism broke many ethical codes and manipulated evidence, and he is now banned from practicing medicine in the UK. In fact, 11 of the original co-authors of that study withdrew their names from the paper. There is absolutely no evidence that vaccines are related to autism.
My dad is a pediatrician, so I always hear him ranting about how some of his patients' parents don't believe in vaccines, and then they wonder why their children get sick with vaccine-preventable diseases.
Quote from: roadguy2 on January 05, 2018, 06:47:16 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on January 05, 2018, 11:43:40 AM
Whooping cough vaccinations do not last a lifetime. In fact, they usually crap out by later teen years.
Which is why you're supposed to get a booster every ten years, which you also get with a tetanus shot (it's called TDAP). In Utah, I believe students entering the seventh grade are required to get a TDAP vaccine before school starts.
Quote from: adventurernumber1 on January 04, 2018, 06:13:40 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 04, 2018, 03:59:56 PM
Quote from: kalvado on January 04, 2018, 03:44:20 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
A small third world country called California had a bit of an outbreak in 2010-2014 if I remember corectly I believe they more or less contained it for now. Not a big one, low tens thousands cases.
WA, VT, WI also had some.
Ignoring immunizations allows that stuff spread...
But they cause autism! I need my freedom! I even ignore facts! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I'm really not trying to get political here, but IIRC, it is a scientific fact that vaccines do not cause autism, and I am saying that as an autistic person... and I would really not recommend ignoring vaccines for that reason, because it could potentially be quite dangerous in the end..
It was later discovered that guy who did the initial study that found a link to autism broke many ethical codes and manipulated evidence, and he is now banned from practicing medicine in the UK. In fact, 11 of the original co-authors of that study withdrew their names from the paper. There is absolutely no evidence that vaccines are related to autism.
My dad is a pediatrician, so I always hear him ranting about how some of his patients' parents don't believe in vaccines, and then they wonder why their children get sick with vaccine-preventable diseases.
Vaccines really need to be mandatory world wide.
Quote from: roadguy2 on January 05, 2018, 06:47:16 PM
It was later discovered that guy who did the initial study that found a link to autism broke many ethical codes and manipulated evidence, and he is now banned from practicing medicine in the UK. In fact, 11 of the original co-authors of that study withdrew their names from the paper. There is absolutely no evidence that vaccines are related to autism.
My dad is a pediatrician, so I always hear him ranting about how some of his patients' parents don't believe in vaccines, and then they wonder why their children get sick with vaccine-preventable diseases.
Not that such behavior would be unacceptable if those ideas went mainstream.
Quote from: inkyatari on January 05, 2018, 08:56:20 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Does it sometimes feel like a tickle in the back of your throat? If so, I am thinking I may have whooping cough.
That's usually my first symptom that I'm getting a common cold.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on January 08, 2018, 12:38:23 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.
So, communist?
Quote from: SectorZ on January 05, 2018, 11:43:40 AM
Whooping cough vaccinations do not last a lifetime. In fact, they usually crap out by later teen years. When my wife was in high school, her school had an outbreak of it. All but one of the people with it had been vaccinated earlier in life for it. I don't know if the one who hadn't was the vector for it.
My wife and I were advised to get boosters, at the ripe old age of 40-41. This also made the kids feel a little better about taking it.
Whether it's anti-vaxxers or it just losing efficacy (like Smallpox vaccines) (http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/infections/immunization/smallpox-vaccine) isn't really my level of expertise. My friend's son got a few years ago it at age 8, even after his shots and vaccines, so it's not perfect.
The older DPT vaccine had some occasional side effects (among which were high fever with occasional febrile seizure) but initially appeared to confer a long immunity. I was diagnosed with it in my early 20's, and there was a lot of disbelief among the clinicians. We've since come to understand that a number of teens and adults get pertussis; it's not clear if the immunity from the better-tolerated acellular vaccine (the DTaP) lasts a shorter time or if we're better at detecting pertussis in older people because now we sometimes are looking for it.
It tends to be a severe, life-threatening illness, only among infants and young children - those who cannot (yet) be fully vaccinated are at greatest risk from this illness. If everyone who can get immunized does get immunized, then herd immunity will actually protect the very young as well as immunocompromised individuals of all ages.
Doctor says it's the result of post nasal drip. She has me on prednisone.
Quote from: roadguy2 on January 08, 2018, 01:01:03 AM
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on January 08, 2018, 12:38:23 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.
So, communist?
With that system, Switzerland is a third world country.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 08, 2018, 08:55:15 PM
Quote from: roadguy2 on January 08, 2018, 01:01:03 AM
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on January 08, 2018, 12:38:23 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.
So, communist?
With that system, Switzerland is a third world country.
No. Switzerland has no military alliances with the west, but does have close economic and cultural ties. It had basically no ties to the USSR during the cold war, and still has only a weak relationship with Russia.
Quote from: kkt on January 08, 2018, 10:44:34 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 08, 2018, 08:55:15 PM
Quote from: roadguy2 on January 08, 2018, 01:01:03 AM
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on January 08, 2018, 12:38:23 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 04, 2018, 03:37:30 PM
I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.
Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?
I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.
So, communist?
With that system, Switzerland is a third world country.
No. Switzerland has no military alliances with the west, but does have close economic and cultural ties. It had basically no ties to the USSR during the cold war, and still has only a weak relationship with Russia.
I disagree. "Third world" countries were those without an alliance to either NATO (first world) or the Communist bloc (second world). Switzerland formed neither such alliance, therefore it is a third-world country.
From what I remember from taking World History, I thought that first-world referred to developed, capitalist countries, second-world referred to developed, communist countries, and third-world referred to all undeveloped and developing countries in the world.
Finished my prednisone prescription. Still coughing.
Quote from: Brandon on January 04, 2018, 03:45:29 PM
Whooping cough, otherwise known as Pertussis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis
And the vaccine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis_vaccine
Importantly, outbreaks do occur in the developed world.
And known by me and classmates back at the school as "feline cough". The pun is noticeable only in Spanish, where pertussis is known as
tos ferina, and we would change one letter so it became
tos felina.
I'm just getting over a 3-week-long cold, with severe coughing as one of the symptoms. Unfortunately, I'm terribly allergic to most antibiotics (essentially anything ending in -cillin or -mycin), so I slog through it with doxycyclene or sulfa-based medications (which I'd probably forget to take if not for my wonderful nurse GF!), neither of which offer anything like instantaneous relief much less cure. However, "doxy" generally results, at least in my case, in stomach upset. It hasn't been a particularly great holiday season -- but it did give me an excuse to avoid this years CES (Consumer Electronic Show) in Vegas; my company wasn't exhibiting this year, but I often go anyway just to see old friends in the business -- but frankly the show has sucked the last few years; more & more of the specialty-audio folks are staying away and instead putting on smaller dedicated shows around the country later on in the year. And my GF doesn't like going to Vegas for trade shows anyway; she'd rather it just be for fun & games (can't really blame her for that!). Oh well, time for some hot green tea with lemon -- that seems to work as well as any prescription!
Now I think, I should create a thread titled Severe myoclonic epilepsy of the infancy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravet_syndrome) as a parody of this one :sombrero:. I would have gone with Sideroblastic anemia with marrow cell vacuolization and exocrine pancreatic dysfunction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_syndrome) instead, but that is too long for a thread title.