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How do you prevent whooping cough?
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Last reviewed: 06.07.2025
To create active immunity, a pertussis vaccination is carried out, using whole-cell and acellular vaccines. In our country, a whole-cell vaccine is used as part of DPT and a pertussis monovaccine. Acellular (acellular) vaccines include pertussis anatoxin, filamentous hemagglutinin and pertactin. The pertussis component of the domestic DPT vaccine consists of killed pertussis pathogens.
Primary vaccination with DPT vaccine is administered to children aged 3 months three times at 0.5 ml with an interval of 30-40 days, revaccination - after 1.5-2 years. The vaccine is administered subcutaneously in the shoulder blade area. Pertussis monovalent vaccine is used in a dose of 0.1 ml subcutaneously to children previously immunized against diphtheria and tetanus.
A patient with whooping cough must be separated from peers for 25-30 days from the moment of illness. For children under 7 years of age who have been in contact with patients and have not previously had whooping cough and have not been vaccinated (if they do not have a cough), a quarantine is established for a period of 14 days from the moment of the last contact with the patient.
If a patient with whooping cough is treated at home, children under 7 years of age who have been in contact with him/her and have not had whooping cough are subject to isolation, which is stopped 25 days after the onset of cough in the first sick child. Children who have had whooping cough and children over 7 years of age, as well as adults serving children's institutions, are under medical supervision for 25 days after the onset of cough in the sick person. Final disinfection is not carried out.
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