Make sure to get the Tdap shot to protect yourself and your baby. After you get the shot, your body will create protective antibodies and pass some of them to your …show more content…
baby before birth. These antibodies provide your baby some short-term protection against whooping cough when born. These antibodies can also protect your baby from lung disease and encephalopathy.
Anyone who comes in contact with your baby, should be up-to-date with whooping cough vaccination.
Only one dose of Tdap is recommended for most people 11 years and older. They recommend get more than one dose of this vaccine is pregnant women.
Getting the whooping cough vaccine during pregnancy provides your baby some short-term protection, but he needs his own vaccine to protect him as he grows up. This is a safe and effective vaccine that protects children against three diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough
Whooping cough disease starts like the common cold, with a runny nose or congestion, sneezing, and maybe a mild cough or fever. Later on, severe coughing will begin.
Whooping cough can become a series of coughing fits that continues for weeks. Whooping cough can cause violent and rapid coughing until the air is gone from the lungs and you are forced to inhale with a loud "whooping" sound. This is where they got the name of the cough.
Whooping cough vaccines are very effective for protecting babies, but not 100% effective. Vaccine protection for whooping cough also decreases over time. If whooping cough is circulating in the community, there is still a chance that a fully vaccinated person can catch this again. If you get the vaccine and still get whooping cough, you will have fewer coughing fits, shorter illness, and be less likely to suffer
complications.
Works cited http://www.cdc.gov/features/pertussis/ http://www.nooga.com/157022/whooping-cough-on-the-rise-in-hamilton-county-and-the-nation/