Reply With Quotewe have had whooping cough at work now for a number of weeks...seems that this is effecting a fair few just like swine flu
I've been ill for the last 5 weeks. Seems I might have caught whooping cough.
So I was sent to have a pathology test (Nose Swab).
I found out that your nasel canal is the same length as your index finger from tip of finger to the knuckle on your fist.
I thought they were joking when they brought out this long thin cotton bud swab thing and lined it up along my index finger and then marked the length onto the swab stick.
They then feed it all the way up your nostril ,it hits a bump and still they insert further up to the mark on the stick.
I got through it without being sick, but I can symphasise with the little kids when they have to have it done.
After it was finished, I was told they do the Swine flue swabs this was too. ( on TV they show them doing a swab of the mouth)
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we have had whooping cough at work now for a number of weeks...seems that this is effecting a fair few just like swine flu
Our Land Rover does not leak oil! it just marks its territory.......
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It's actually longer than that! Some of the viral swabs can be longer than the one you had, although on a piece of bendy wire.Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!
I've been ill for the last 5 weeks. Seems I might have caught whooping cough.
So I was sent to have a pathology test (Nose Swab).
I found out that your nasel canal is the same length as your index finger from tip of finger to the knuckle on your fist.
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Ever had to do a nasal aspirate on a 2 year old with RSV or pertussis? Not pleasant for anyone.
Diana
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Swaggie
just as well you didn't have diarrhoea!
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Wizard
I had one a few years back for a test for whooping cough, quite painful almost as painful as when the doctor forgot to put an anesthetic needle in part of kneewhen I was getting stitches then he put the needle through the skin.
Ben......
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I had a hard lump cut off my shoulder when I was about 19ish.....i went into a theatre. But only had the area numbed rather than going under so was awake for the whole thing unfortunately for me the anastetic wore off befor they finished stitching.
They said we only have 2 stitches left it will take more time to numb it again ad carried on....well 2 stitches is 4 holes my god it hurt!!!!! thats the british national health service for you
Our Land Rover does not leak oil! it just marks its territory.......
It was nearly eradicated until the do good greenie mothers stopped immunising thier kids against it apparantly.
I was never vacinated against it.
Seems TB, polio etc could also come back due to non vacination practises.
ForumSage
Yep
Had the whooping cough scare a month or two ago with our new born. Now he is back in hospital again with pneumonia.
At least this time they have listened to the fact that he has had crackles in his breathing since birth. They have also found that a ventalin puffer allows him to breath properly this time.
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That would be measles was nearly eradicated and no MMR doesn't cause autism, it is just that autism first demonstrates at about the same time as MMR is given.
Pertussis (whooping cough) has been with us constantly, it is the cause of much of the pneumonia that was killing off our old folks. The problem was that no one tested for pertussis in adults because it doesn't give the stridor heard in kids with it. You will be pleased to know that pertussis has been added to Adult Diphtheria and Tetanus (ADT) vaccine to restore pertussis immunity back into the ageing population. So if you haven't had a tetanus shot in the last 20 years or so you should talk to your GP about getting the vaccination.
Greenie mothers - DO NOT get me started on that one
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Swaggie
Good on'yer, Lotza. Our parent's would have been horrified to think that someone would choose to not immunise their children. Would have been considered criminal negligence. Deaths of children from diptheria, whooping cough, measles, scaret fever, tuberculosis, mumps, poliomyleitis, and a few others were the scourge of life before antibiotics and other treatments. Go look around cemeteries and see the children's graves of the era.
I remember the fifties when a report of a case of polio caused panic. Children were rounded up and kept home. The "polio house" was pointed out to visitors and people would cross the street in front of a home with a case of polio. I remember the children's physiotherapy ward at Brisbane Childrens in the early '50's, full of kids with twisted limbs and limbs in calipers. And now we have hippy and yuppy fools who will not immunise their children. This should be a prosecutable charge of negilgence to a child.
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