Medically reviewed by Wendy L. Hunter, M.D. Your baby will likely cough quite a bit in their first year of life—and for good reason. Coughs are the body's way of protecting itself. Your baby's cough ...

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Whooping cough and croup are both contagious respiratory infections. Whooping cough causes a high pitched, gasping cough, while croup causes a barking, seal-like cough. Whooping cough and croup are ...

A previously healthy boy, 2 years 10 months of age, was brought by his parents to a pediatric emergency department (ED) with fever up to 103°F for 3 days and intermittent violent coughing episodes.

Whooping cough (medically, pertussis) is a highly contagious illness caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacterium. It gets ...

Twelve years and seven kids ago, we had our first experience with croup. It came upon our then 17-month-old in the middle of the night. Of course. For the uninitiated, according to Dr. Google, croup ...

Pregnancy already asks a lot of the body and when shortness of breath, wheezing or chronic cough is added to the mix, things ...

Coughing is a reflex that typically serves as a defense mechanism to clear the airways of irritants or secretions. (Fun fact: Coughs can propel air and particles out of the lungs and throat at speeds ...