Jayne Saywell, from Portobello in Edinburgh, was scared when her 16-year-old son Tom started having coughing fits in April ... to protect the baby you’re carrying at the same time," she said.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a bacterial infection that can cause painful coughing fits and difficulty breathing. Cases ...

MORE than 12,000 cases of whooping cough were confirmed in England in the first seven months of the year, UK Health Security ...

Whooping cough spreads more easily when people spend a lot of time together or share breathing ... who catch whooping cough develop coughing fits, which can last weeks to months, the health ...

A recent report suggests that millions of children in the UK have probably been infected with whooping cough despite being immunised against it. Does this mean the vaccine no longer works — and ...

It's not for nothing that one of the biggest topics of conversation for new parents is about sleep, or lack thereof. If you're being kept awake at night and spend what feel like enormous chunks of the ...

Another baby has died from ... best defence against whooping cough and it is vital that pregnant women and young infants receive their vaccines at the right time. ‘Pregnant women are offered ...

Infants under 12 months and pregnant people are particularly vulnerable. A pediatric infectious disease specialist shares ...

The cough may linger for weeks or months, even after treatment with antibiotics. The coughing gets less severe and less frequent over time until it goes away. However, coughing fits may return ...

The baby proofers we spoke to told us otherwise. As Neal Onos of Safe Beginnings Childproofing said, “If [a pressure-fit gate has] been up for a long time, it might do more damage than a mounted ...