To remind everyone to make sure they are vaccinated against Whooping Cough is medically able to

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There's an increasing outbreak including the death of a child too young to have been vaccinated. It's particularly prevalent in Bristol, Nottingham and Cardiff currently but it isn't much lower in other cities. I had a booster a month ago when I went for travel vaccines, my gp if offering it to everyone not vaccinated in the past 10 years as a precaution. I personally know half a dozen cases since Christmas and it's a town not a city.

For the young, elderly and immunocompromised this can be deadly and it's not very nice for everyone else, with a 3 week suggested isolation period, plus weeks of disrupted sleep.

Protect those unable to be vaccinated or those too young to have had the 3 doses.

I last had the vaccine in 2020 when pregnant with DD2. Will this still offer some protection?

There were difficulties with the jab in the mid-70s lasting in to the 1980s

But since then it has been completely reformulated, and I don't think there has been any controversy about the new one

The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986 - PubMed (nih.gov)

So if you are age about 40-50, it might be worth checking if you had it at all, and seeing if you can have a catch up if there's any uncertainty

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If you get the antibiotics very early it can stop you developing the cough - it did with my DS. As myself and DD had been diagnosed Public health said if any other family start with symptoms (it starts off like a heavy cold) to get them to the GP for antibiotics straight away.

I've passed out multiple times with it. Sometimes I don't quite lose consciousness but just lie there twitching not able to move. It's horrible.

God that sounds horrific!