How does a person know if they have woughing cough?

its whooping cough and you'll sound like you are barking, it is persistent and hurts your throat. check webmd.com or call your dr.

reddish spots appearing on body that when a glass is pressed against them they donot disapear, if you even suspect whooping cough get to your g.p or hospital straight away

It can start off like an ordinary cold (catarrhal phase) for 7 to 14 days, but tends to worsen with periods of uncontrolled coughing. these are associated with a "whooping" noise during breathing in between bursts of coughing and often carry on until the child actually vomits. these episodes frequently cause the child to go blue and can be very worrying for the onlooker. between the periods or spasms of coughing the child seems fine. Often exercise or laughing brings on a spasm of coughing.

Attacks of whooping cough may last for six weeks or more and the reason that people worry is that there is a mortality rate, but this is low and happens mainly in children under 6 months. sometimes whooping cough may be complicated by brain damage or fits or pneumonia. When adults get whooping cough the diagnosis may not be quite so clear cut and it may just seem like a prolonged, irritating, cough.

If you think your child might have whooping cough you should consult your doctor

In Italy scientists are experimenting with modified forms of the food-poisoning bug salmonella to prime the body?s defences to attack skin-cancer cells.

?The evidence so far suggests that stimulating the immune system could be a promising way to treat some types of cancer. many researchers around the world are investigating this type of therapy,? explains Nell Barrie at Cancer Research UK.

Other heat treatments include the ?synergo technique? for bladder cancer. This involves heating the wall of the bladder with a microwave probe in combination with the chemotherapy drug mitomycin C. The heat appears to make the cancer cells more sensitive to the chemotherapy.

Trials are also under way for a procedure known as ?microwave thermotherapy? for a number of cancers, including kidney cancer. This involves heating the kidney using microwave energy.

When an injury is more than 48 hours old heat, in the form of pads, cream, hot water bottles or heat lamps, causes the blood vessels to dilate.

This brings more blood into the area, helping it to heal quicker, says Doctor Meng Aw-Young, St John Ambulance?s medical adviser. ?It also has a direct soothing effect, helping to relieve pain and spasm.?

Heat is particularly effective in treating muscle injuries, bruises, strains and small muscle tears, he adds. Make sure that the temperature is warm rather than hot.

A daily 15-minute sauna could be the equivalent of taking regular exercise and save you from heart disease, claim Japanese scientists. Researchers at Kagoshima University monitored a group of men at risk of heart disease after taking daily saunas. Two weeks later, the men were found to have significantly wider arteries and increased blood flow.

Daily saunas may even reverse the damage to blood vessels caused by high cholesterol levels, according to the researchers.

However Ellen Mason, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, warns: ?Saunas cause excessive sweating which means a loss of fluid from your body.

?This reduces your total blood volume which means your heart has to work harder. If you have angina it could trigger an episode.? BACKACHE

Both heat and ice have been found to alleviate low-level back pain.

Changing the temperature of the skin helps moderate the processing of pain sensations in the spinal cord and so desensitises the nerve endings.

Scientists at University College London found controlled heat, when delivered at 40C, effectively blocks pain messages sent from the affected part of the body, thus masking the pain.

?When you get back pain you get muscle spasms and heat allows those muscle spasms to relax which also reduces the pain,? says Sammy Margo, of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Heat can help arthritis by increasing blood circulation and relieving sore, stiff muscles and joints, especially in the mornings and at bedtimes, according to Arthritis Care.

?Warmth is a more appropriate description of the heat level required,? says a spokeswoman.

Moist heat from rice, wheat or gel bags is best. a warm bath or shower or hot water bottle can also help. Heat packs should not be used on a joint or area of the skin that is very inflamed.

Nor should heat be applied more than 20-30 minutes at a time. Sleeping on an electric blanket can cause the nervous system to have a reflex response known as ?rebound?, which causes the muscles and joints to become stiff and sore.

Simply placing a hot water bottle on your tummy can ease period pain. Scientists at University College London found that putting something warm on the skin can alleviate abdominal pain, including menstrual cramps, in a similar way to painkillers.

?The heat doesn?t just provide comfort and have a placebo effect. It actually deactivates the pain at a molecular level in much the same way as pharmaceutical painkillers work,? explains senior lecturer Dr Brian King, who led the study.

The findings of the study were later confirmed by German scientists and published in the journal Pain.

How heat therapy helped me

REBECCA STEVENS, 35, lives in St Albans, Herts, with husband mark, 35, and their two-year-old son Reubin

About a year ago I started getting a dull ache in my lower back. I used to ride horses and muck out the stables every day. I couldn?t ride at all or even pick Reubin up, which was a horrible feeling for a mother.

My pharmacist recommended Deep Heat Patches For back Pain. I was sceptical but agreed to try them. I couldn?t believe how much better they made me feel. I still get the pain every now and then but as soon as I put one of the patches on they help.

Now instead of being stuck on the sofa, I can pick up Reubin and carry the vacuum cleaner upstairs ? things I had no hope of achieving before.

If you have TMJ Lockjaw is one of the possible symptoms.

Officially, Lockjaw is the term for a seizing up of the jaw that can happen if a person gets Tetanus infection.

It is a really good idea not to get Tetanus.

Having said that, the term lock jaw has slipped into common usage as a term describing TMJ symptoms both of severe muscle tightness and the jaw actually locking in an open or closed position.

As I said, technically ‘lockjaw’ is a symptoms of Tetanus.

But “I have lockjaw” has become the common phrase that is uttered after the first time a person with TMJ (TemporoMandibular Joint Disorder) opens their jaw and it ‘locks’ into some open position.

This is both painful and frightening, and often accompanied by sounds that a person should just never ever hear coming from their jaw structure.

Lockjaw from TMJ is a function of the muscles of the jaw being so tight that they either pull the joint out of alignment, or they are so tight that as you open your mouth, they seize/spasm and lock the jaw in place for some length of time.

One a TMJ dynamic progresses to the point where your jaw starts locking, you can expect to have more and more TMJ jaw pain.

What makes the jaw lock in a person with TMJ?

As you will find on the main TMJ page, TMJ is a dynamic of ever increasing tightness and pain.

As with all forms of Tendonitis, the muscular structure of the jaw gets more and more tightened, and then this becomes ‘normal’. But it’s still too tight.

Jaw Locking Open

As the jaw opens, muscles have to lengthen to let it open. if they are too tight, they won’t let this motion happen very easily.

If muscles of the jaw are more or less tight than those on the opposite side, the jaw will open at an angle, essentially getting pulled out of alignment.

This can make the jaw bones get pulled out of joint.

If a person opens their mouth and their jaw bone slips out of joint, it can get locked because it is no longer in it’s groove.

When this happens, the nervous system freaks out, and tries to protect you by tightening the muscles even more to ‘guard’ against possible injury. Ironically, this just clamps the bones down tighter into the now out-of-joint joint.

The muscles have to relax some, and/or the bones have to skip back into their groove before the jaw will close.

Jaw Locked Shut

The jaw can also lock in a closed position.

This can happen for two reasons, and usually a combination of both.

1. Muscles can be so tight, clenching and squeezing the jaw so hard, that the nervous system panics and sends the muscles into a severe spasm, which locks the muscles into a contracted state.

They literally won’t stop contracting while in this state.

2. The nervous system can be getting signals from an irritated jaw joint(s), such that it is afraid that if the jaw opens just one more time that injury will happen. if the nervous system decides that injury is going to happen, it will do whatever it can to prevent such an injury.

It does this by sending your jaw musculature into an intense spasm, locking the muscles into a contracted state.

TMJ jaw pain creates a feedback loop that creates more tightness, and more TMJ jaw pain.

You can disrupt the TMJ dynamic and reverse the The Pain Causing Dynamic

There are TMJ exercises that help. Icing the muscles on the outside of the jaw can help, if the muscles on the outside of the jaw are the problem, and you can do TMJ massage on yourself to relax the muscles.

The more you do, the less pain you will have. The less you do, the more pain you will have.

Tired of TMJ jaw pain? then get to work.

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Go to the main TMJ page.

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