It took me six tries to get through the whole video. I had to pause it and take a few minutes each time. You know, honestly, I am not certain if my own vaccination is up to date–the last time I had a whooping cough vaccination I was a child, and I know my parents were careful enough to make sure that we got the full cycle, but I also know that adults are recommended to get boosters. Time to see to that next week.
Blanche Quiznosays
Did she survive?
Here are a couple others, a boy and then an older man in the hospital:
Please do – my husband got it last year and it was terrible, even for a grown adult.
I just looked into it–every pharmacy from Costco to Fred Meyer to Walmart offers the vaccine here in the Puget Sound area. Presumably on a walk-in basis. That being said, if I had children I would not take them to a walk-in pharmacy but rather to a family doctor and follow their advice, but for an adult, these pharmacies are quick and easy. I know from getting travel vaccinations that they’ll provide you with a permanent vaccination card that you can slip into your passport and keep track of what you’ve had, when.
mildlymagnificentsays
Yeah. Adults who have been vaccinated a while ago can have it without even knowing it.
There’s sometimes a joke here about a “hundred day cough” for a cold-that-won’t-go-away. Turns out that this can be a dose of pertussis. If you know anyone in that condition, keep them away from children (anyone really) until they’ve had a doctor confirm that it’s not pertussis or, if it is, whether they are still contagious.
Tsu Dho Nimhsays
That bell is her oxygen alarm … her O2 saturation is below whatever the set limit is.
Do that to your brain often enough, several to many times an hour for a few weeks, and it’s going to have some damaged cells.
That is quite awful.
The poor sprout can’t even cry.
It took me six tries to get through the whole video. I had to pause it and take a few minutes each time. You know, honestly, I am not certain if my own vaccination is up to date–the last time I had a whooping cough vaccination I was a child, and I know my parents were careful enough to make sure that we got the full cycle, but I also know that adults are recommended to get boosters. Time to see to that next week.
Did she survive?
Here are a couple others, a boy and then an older man in the hospital:
http://streaming.cdc.gov/vod.php?id=7ffe0c683b0dc2765090991b8f8018c920120904104432647
http://www.nejm.org/action/showMediaPlayer?doi=10.1056/NEJMicm1111819&aid=NEJMicm1111819_attach_1&area
That last one, you may have to pause it for a while – it seems to download intermittently – and then play it once a few seconds have finished loading.
I just found this, which is apropos of the discussion: the 2014 vaccination schedule for adults from the CDC.
Please do – my husband got it last year and it was terrible, even for a grown adult.
I just looked into it–every pharmacy from Costco to Fred Meyer to Walmart offers the vaccine here in the Puget Sound area. Presumably on a walk-in basis. That being said, if I had children I would not take them to a walk-in pharmacy but rather to a family doctor and follow their advice, but for an adult, these pharmacies are quick and easy. I know from getting travel vaccinations that they’ll provide you with a permanent vaccination card that you can slip into your passport and keep track of what you’ve had, when.
Yeah. Adults who have been vaccinated a while ago can have it without even knowing it.
There’s sometimes a joke here about a “hundred day cough” for a cold-that-won’t-go-away. Turns out that this can be a dose of pertussis. If you know anyone in that condition, keep them away from children (anyone really) until they’ve had a doctor confirm that it’s not pertussis or, if it is, whether they are still contagious.
That bell is her oxygen alarm … her O2 saturation is below whatever the set limit is.
Do that to your brain often enough, several to many times an hour for a few weeks, and it’s going to have some damaged cells.