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'Parents should also be alert to the signs and symptoms--which include severe coughing fits accompanied by the characteristic '
whoop' sound in young children but as a prolonged cough in older children or adults.
Dr Mary Ramsay, the HPA's head of immunisation, said: "Anyone showing signs and symptoms - which include severe coughing fits accompanied by the characteristic '
whoop' sound in young children but as a prolonged cough in older children and adults - should visit their GP."
"The main symptoms are severe coughing fits which, in some cases, is accompanied by the characteristic '
whoop' sound as the child gasps for breath after coughing.
Dr Musarrat Afza, head of immunisation for the HPA in the West Midlands, said that the main symptoms are severe coughing fits which, in babies and children, are accompanied by a characteristic '
whoop' sound as the child gasps for breath after coughing.
The adult version of pertussis rarely results in the telltale
whoop that marks the disease in children.
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. The main symptoms are severe coughing fits which, in babies and children, are accompanied by the characteristic
whoop sound as the child gasps for breath after coughing.
Dr Ramsay said: 'Anyone showing signs and symptoms, which include severe coughing fits accompanied by the characteristic "
whoop" sound in young children, but as a prolonged cough in older children and adults, should visit their GP.'
Babies and children can often make a distressing "
whoop" sound while gasping for air after a coughing fit.
A child must distinguish between non-speech sounds like "
whoop," which quickly goes down in frequency, and "wheep," which goes up.