<p style="font-size:16px; text-align:justify; line-height:125%;">
	<a href="http://www.socialcaretraining.ie/paediatric-first-aid-training" style="font-size:16px; text-align:justify; line-height:125%;">Paediatric first aid</a> involves preventative measures for the purposes of maintaining children&rsquo;s health. <strong>Common child illnesses include whooping coughs</strong>, also known as pertussis. Whooping cough is contagious and can last for months. Infants or children with pertussis often begin with mild coughs before it protracts into noticeable &amp;<strong> severe punctuated cough </strong>which resurface regularly over a month. This is a case for a general practitioner, but it is good for a social care worker to be aware of pertussis when dealing with child care matters pertaining to <a href="http://www.socialcaretraining.ie/what-paediatric-first-aid-involves" style="font-size:16px; text-align:justify; line-height:125%;">what paediatric first aid involves</a> regarding recognition of symptoms. Whooping cough can be fatal, so early detection can help save a life. <strong>Pertussis has an incubation period of up to ten days</strong>, followed by a runny nose, sneezing and mild coughing. At this point, whooping cough is in its catarrhal stage. After this, coughing patterns increase with severity with forceful punctuations that inhibit breathing conditions in what is known as the paroxysmal stage. <strong>Bouts of coughing may occur often</strong> and without warning, triggered by everyday vocal muscular activity of either yawning, laughing, dining or simply talking loudly.</p>
