If you do get whooping cough as a child or adult, there is often nothing you can do about it. It is a bacterial infection, so antibiotics might work. “But you have to give that in the beginning,” Danhof explains. That actually never happens, because the typical symptoms of whooping cough only start later. However, it may still be advisable to test blood. “You can’t do anything anymore, but then you know. Also because sometimes it can be something worse, that is sometimes a relief, strangely enough.”
More children got pneumonia or whooping cough this year: what is it and what helps (not)?
