Whooping cough in vaccinated DC

[Panpig]

My DS age 9 has had a cough for weeks now which started suddenly and has actually got worse in the last week. Seen a doctor who thinks it's not asthma, but surely a normal cold cannot persist for 4+ weeks. I wondered if it was still common for vaccinated children to catch whooping cough, and if they do what are the symptoms. He's coughing violently but no whooping sound, got a runny nose and is tired and grumpy. Anyone had any experience of whooping cough?

There's a lot of coughs and viruses going around at the moment. My family have had them since before Easter.

It's rare to have whooping cough without the "whoop" - they can do a blood test but are unlikely to without it.

I have had whooping cough twice, once as a child and again as an adult, so it's definitely possible to get it again.

I aid whooping cough when I was about 4 and I still remember the distinct whoop cough. Coughs and viruses can definitely hang around for ages . If it's got worse he needs to be seen by the GP again.

**HAD

We all had a cough that lasted a month recently (not covid, we tested thoroughly). Bad enough that DH had to take weeks off work after he coughed hard enough to strain his shoulder and trap a nerve in his neck.

There's a bad one going round, I'm afraid.

I know a few preschoolers who have had coughs for weeks - no idea whether it’s the same one hanging around or they keep getting new ones.

I’ve had whopping cough twice, and I’m vaccinated.

DS2 caught whooping cough during the epidemic in 2012 when he was a couple of weeks old. The paed told me he’d probably got it from DS1. I explained DS1 was vaccinated and had had a cough but not a whoop, and he told me the vaccine doesn’t always stop you getting it, but does sometimes suppress the whoop.

Not all cases have a "whoop".
One common characteristic of the cough is vomiting while coughing.

I had whooping cough as a child, it has a very distinctive 'whoop'. I was sick every bloody time I coughed for weeks, it was horrible. I'd think without a whoop it's most likely 'just' a cough.

There are some really nasty coughs and colds around at the moment, as well as obviously Covid. I had Covid six weeks ago and have just had a cold which has turned into another cough (I got fully better in-between). Might he have a chest infection? Or just have picked up another illness?

Coughs can last forever, when I first had Covid in Feb 2020 I was coughing for nearly three months afterwards.