also known as Pertussis, is breaking out.
According the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
these are the symptoms you are looking for:
"Pertussis can cause serious illness in infants, children and adults. The disease starts like the common cold, with runny nose or congestion, sneezing, and maybe mild cough or fever. But after 1–2 weeks, severe coughing begins. Infants and children with the disease cough violently and rapidly, over and over, until the air is gone from their lungs and they're forced to inhale with a loud "whooping" sound. Pertussis is most severe for babies; more than half of infants less than 1 year of age who get the disease must be hospitalized. About 1 in 20 infants with pertussis get pneumonia (lung infection), and about 1 in 100 will have convulsions. In rare cases, pertussis can be deadly, especially in infants."
The key symptom we are looking for here is the violent and rapid cough that forces the person to take gasping breathes of air. The secondary infection of pneumonia is what we are working to avoid.
Here is my protocol for prevention of Whooping Cough as well as the Secondary infection of pneumonia.* I am a Certified Herbalist and I see hundreds of people a week in a retail setting the advice I give is based on 10 years of experience of working in the field of Natural Medicine. I take a very conservative approach in working with adults and children. I start with the foundation and work out from there.
1. Vitamin D3 5,000IU one tablet a day - It has been shown that the majority of the population is deficient in Vitamin D. Even if you laid in the sun all Summer the amount of Vitamin D that you soak up would not compensate for the Winter months. Vitamin D3 helps your immune cells to become more virulent and attack viral invaders. In the war of the good guys versus the bad guys your immune cells become Super juiced and turn into ninjas.
