Melb baby dies of whooping cough...

[Pretty Butterfly]

Stoked, my children are exactly the same.. the Vac'd ones catch every damn thing, my 3 unvac, healthy as horses!!!

I hate seeing this poor family like this....

What I hate more, is how bubby prob caught it... you cant catch it by a passer-by breathing on you.. you need very direct contact, with coughing/spitting involved, which is why it runs in families most of the time... someone who has whooping cough had to of breathed/coughed over this little one quite a bit for him/her to of caught it... simply staying away, or being more careful, would go a long way towards these things not happening.....

[Marlene]

you cant catch it by a passer-by breathing on you.. you need very direct contact, with coughing/spitting involved, which is why it runs in families most of the time... someone who has whooping cough had to of breathed/coughed over this little one quite a bit for him/her to of caught it... simply staying away, or being more careful, would go a long way towards these things not happening.....

Actually, my entire family are on AB's at the moment (as a preventative because I only have 5 weeks till bub is due) as a baby at playgroup was diagnosed with whooping cough. When the nurse from the hospital called to advise me to go to my GP she said that because Jack and I were in a room with this baby for more than 1 hour we had to take preventative measures, even though on the day of the playgroup the baby hadn't developed a cough yet. The nurse said that the virus is at it's most contagious even before the cough comes out, when they just have a clear runny nose.
It's pretty scary, because how many people quarantine themselves at home just because they or their child has a clear, runny nose or sniffle? I know I don't. Otherwise I would be on permanent lockdown with my hayfever sniffles!!