What is the effective medicine for whooping cough?

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What is the effective medicine for whooping cough?

2007-10-12 18:24:29 · 1 answers · asked by Gopakumar K 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases

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Macrolide antibiotics - erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin - reduce the infectivity of the patient, but once whooping cough is manifest, the damage to the pulmonary tissue has occurred, and the cough proceeds. Full recovery may take six weeks or longer.

2007-10-12 18:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by greydoc6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋