Typical symptoms include persistent cough, which can cause continuous coughing to the point where you cannot inhale and feel hypoxia, and then produce inhaled asthma with a whistle sound. It is usually more common in young children under 5 years old, especially in newborns who ha

Pertussis is an acute bacterial disease that invades the respiratory tract and is highly contagious. The typical symptoms are persistent cough. This continuous cough will cough so much that it is unable to inhale and is hypoxia, and then produce inhaled asthma with a sound. It is usually more common in young children under 5 years old, especially in newborns who have not completed vaccination. If they are accidentally infected, 60% to 70% need to be hospitalized, and 100% will cause serious comorbidities such as pneumonia or brain lesions. Even in advanced medical countries, there is a mortality rate of about one percent.

Importance of vaccination for pertussis vaccination during pregnancy

New Although babies are vaccinated for pertussis two, four or six months after birth, their immunity gradually weakens after vaccination is considered to be the main factor leading to the persistence of pertussis. The point is that babies under two months old are in the vacant period and are still not immune in their bodies. In order for the baby to grow up in an environment with protective antibodies, pregnant women should receive a whooping cough vaccine during pregnancy to protect the newborn.

study confirmed that pregnant women start producing antibodies two weeks after being vaccinated with the pertussis vaccine, and the antibodies can be transmitted to the newborn through the placenta. 95% of newborns can measure sufficient antibodies after birth. The milk secreted by breastfeeding is also contained in the immunoglobulin , which is anti-pertussis toxin, which can inhibit the invasion of the infant mucosa by pertussis. In addition, there are also research reports that if during the flu epidemic season, the pertussis vaccine can also be administered at the same time as the flu vaccine, which will not increase the risk of fetus or pregnant women.

Therefore, it is recommended that women should receive one dose of tetanus diphtheria non-cellular pertussis mixed vaccine regardless of past vaccination history, which is best for vaccination at the 28th to 36th week of pregnancy, so as to maximize the vaccination benefits of mother antibodies delivered to the baby. If you are not vaccinated during pregnancy, you should be vaccinated immediately after delivery.

study shows that 75-85% of infants and young children have infections with whooping cough come from family caregivers, and more than 50% of the transmission of whooping cough is from parents or siblings. Therefore, it is recommended that infant caregivers and families who have close contact with them, such as obstetrics and gynecology, pediatric medical staff, nanny, confinement or baby care center staff, and relatives living together should be vaccinated to achieve a vaccine coverage strategy to increase herd immunity to , and at the same time reduce the situation where adults and children are infected with whooping cough and are transmitted to infants and young children.