Whopping Cough at Work

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iLanny · 27/01/2020 10:25

Hi everyone

So I’m 15 weeks pregnant and work in a school. My headteacher, who is also pregnant, just informed me that a family of children in school have whooping cough. They are on antibiotics at the moment but she has advised we stay away from communal areas at the moment until we hear what we should be doing.

Any thoughts? Is it safe for me to be in work?

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Selfsettling3 · 27/01/2020 10:27

Ring your midwife and ask them. Generally whooping cough is a risk for new borns and you will be vaccinated later with the solo purpose of hopefully passing some of that immunity onto the baby.

R2D2abc · 27/01/2020 11:06

The whopping cough vaccine is for baby.

You should be immune to it if you had your childhood immunisation.

If in doubt ring your midwife, but you should be fine.

123launcher · 27/01/2020 15:04

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ifeeltheneedtheneedforsleep · 27/01/2020 16:22

Please please get advice from GP or midwife - your childhood vaccination won't necessarily still provide you with immunity. I was vaccinated as a child but still got whooping cough 3 years ago and I honestly wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy! I was off work for the best part of 3 months so I dread to think how debilitating it is when pregnant!!

Bunnylady54 · 27/01/2020 16:26

I thought the thread was about a big cough ( whopping)

Zest11 · 27/01/2020 16:35

Stay away just to be safe. You will have the opportunity for a vaccination soon. Maybe ask your midwife if you can get it sooner? How far along is your head? She may have had the vaccination already.

Zest11 · 27/01/2020 16:36

Also...I work in a school. How is it possible to "stay away from communal areas"?

Esmerelda123 · 27/01/2020 17:49

I’m a nurse who directly looked after a patient with Whooping Cough. A rude man who was coughing everywhere 🙄. The GP gave me my vaccine at 16 weeks with no antibiotic cover- they are more concerned about with newborns, so hopefully as you are earlier on it shouldn’t be an issue x

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iLanny · 27/01/2020 18:57

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I’ll get in touch with my midwife in the morning as the day has ran away from me today. I had the vaccine when I was pregnant with my little girl who is now 15 months and will do the same again in the coming weeks.

I think my head is around the 22 week mark but hasn’t gotten round to getting the vaccine yet!

@Zest11 Not sure about avoiding the communal areas either, as when she said that I thought surely that includes the corridor?

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