There are many symptoms of whooping cough, not necessarily ten, and common symptoms include cough, nasal congestion, sneezing, fever, sore throat, shortness of breath, and purple lips. Pertussis is usually clinically divided into three phases, each with different symptoms. 1. Catarrhal phase: this period of patients and the common cold symptoms are basically similar, the patient will usually appear runny nose, cough, sneezing, fever, sore throat, nasal congestion and other symptoms, usually lasts about 2 weeks. 2. spasmodic cough period: this period of the patient’s condition will be aggravated, there will be paroxysmal spasmodic cough, the patient will be more than a dozen consecutive cough, repeated episodes of coughing, coughing, when the severity of the lips will also lead to purplish, wheezing, vomiting and other symptoms, mainly at night is more serious. It usually lasts about 2~6 weeks. 3. Recovery period: the patient’s cough is significantly reduced or disappears during this period, and the recovery period usually lasts about 6 weeks to 3 months after the onset of the disease. Parents of children with the above symptoms or suspected of having pertussis should send their children to the pediatrician in time and follow the doctor’s instructions.