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Whooping cough has spread exceptionally much this year, especially in southern Finland.
Mikko Moisio suspects that he has had whooping cough for a month and a half and tells about his symptoms.
Moisio did not get help for his cough from the health center.
Whooping cough has spread this year an extraordinary amount. Infections have occurred more than once in the 21st century. Whooping cough is on the move, especially in southern Finland.
Chief physician of infectious diseases Arto Järvinen The Hus corporation estimated for HS that whooping cough spread more in the spring from infections received from abroad. According to him, now it is probably spreading more on a population basis.
Helsinki native Mikko Moisio69, suspects that he has had whooping cough for a month and a half. He thinks he got it from his wife who lives in Espoo, who was diagnosed with whooping cough in the middle of August. The wife had to undergo a five-day course of antibiotics, but she still has symptoms of the disease.
Mosio’s own symptoms started a week after his wife was diagnosed with whooping cough.
“I haven’t figured out that I got infected from anywhere but him,” says Moisio.
“When you started coughing, I did a corona and flu test as a home test. They both looked negative. I haven’t been officially diagnosed with whooping cough, but I strongly believe that it is.”
Moisio tried to get help from Helsinki’s Kannelmäki health center, but to no avail.
“They didn’t receive me. They said that this is a children’s disease, adults are not accepted here because of whooping cough.”
“The coughing started on August 24 or 25. It was a dry cough at first. It’s like coughing at night, which wakes you up, and you can only fall asleep intermittently,” Moisio describes the symptoms.
According to Moisio, after six weeks of illness it is already easier during the day, but there are still coughing fits at night.
He has treated the symptoms with cough medicine and effervescent tablets. “To some extent it helps on the mental side.”
For Moisio, so-called blowing into a bottle has also been recommended, which enhances the ventilation of the lungs and removes mucus from the bronchial tubes. However, he has not practiced it.
Moisio just to be sure, he went to a private doctor who listened to his lungs.
“The doctor listened and said the tubes sounded clean. Unfortunately, there is no cure. Suffer, suffer, it might be gone before Christmas.”
Moisio says that he practically lived in quarantine and he has not visited his grandchildren, for example.
Whooping cough is spread by droplet infection. Contagiousness is at its greatest in the early stages of the disease and decreases over time. Contagiousness is usually over after three weeks of being sick.
Moisio says that a byproduct of the cough has been loss of appetite. His weight has dropped ten kilos in six weeks.
“The general public is a little bit like that when you move, it makes you feel a little puffy.”
Whooping cough is an upper respiratory tract infection caused by bacteria, the typical symptom of which is a spasmodic cough lasting several weeks, often occurring at night.
According to the Institute of Health and Welfare, the disease occurs in people of all ages, but it is most dangerous for children under the age of six months and insufficiently vaccinated children under the age of one.
Symptoms of whooping cough start 1-3 weeks after infection. In the beginning, the symptoms resemble a common flu. Spasmodic cough appears within 1–2 weeks of the initial symptoms. The cough can last up to three months.
In adults, the disease is usually not accompanied by other serious symptoms besides the cough.
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