Four-month-old baby whooping cough is serious, need to combine the severity of its condition and the absence of reasonable intervention and other factors to determine, such as some of the children combined with pertussis encephalopathy is more serious.
Pertussis is caused by Bordetella pertussis, a highly infectious acute respiratory disease, often manifested as paroxysmal spasmodic cough, can be accompanied by inspiratory “chicken” echo, some of the baby’s disease can be delayed for several months, diagnosis is clear and need to be anti-infective treatment and symptomatic supportive therapy, such as the use of inhaled glucocorticoids for nebulization etc., and need to be isolated.
Whether the disease is serious for four-month-old babies should be judged according to the severity of the disease, the presence of timely and reasonable intervention and the presence of underlying diseases, such as its own serious condition of whooping cough encephalopathy babies, if not timely and symptomatic treatment to reduce the cranial pressure and other treatments, there may be brain hernia and life-threatening, but also pulmonary hypertension, which can lead to sudden death in severe cases, is usually regarded as serious condition such as the above-mentioned.
For babies with a clear diagnosis who do not have obvious serious comorbidities during the course of the disease, such as pneumothorax, etc., and timely therapeutic interventions, it is not considered serious for the time being, but the condition is susceptible to change and close observation is still needed.
Active consultation is recommended for comprehensive assessment and judgment by a specialist.