Whooping Cough or Pertussis is a kind of contagious cough illness that is caused by the bacterium and the bacterium Bordetella parapertussis. This disease most commonly affects children under the age of one year.
Pertussis usually begins as a cold, with runny nose, fever, fatigue and sometimes severe. Then the cough occurred, usually as coughing attacks, followed by a big breath. Sometimes people vomit after coughing. Pertussis may be very serious among young children. They may be blue or stop breathing when the coughing attacks. This cough can be triggered by yawning, laughing or screaming, and will be reduced after 1 to 2 months. Complications that may follow this condition is pneumonia, encephalitis, pulmonary hypertension, and bacterial infections that follow.
Pertussis is spread through coughing bursts of patients affected by this disease and then inhaled by healthy people who have no immunity. If you have a baby, your baby away from people with pertussis. Babies need two or three vaccinations before protected. Therefore, it is important your baby away from people who suffer from diseases that pertussis cough or other germs are not transmitted.
In addition to medical treatment, whooping cough can be cured by using herbal ingredients. Plants that are necessary for the treatment of whooping cough is Aloe Vera (Aloe vera L.), Mengkudu/Noni fruit (Morinda citrifolia L.), this plant is used as efficacious as anti-infective, antibacterial, antibiotic, anti-cough (antitussive), and shed the sputum (ekspektorant).
Anthraguinone Gynecology, acemannan, tennin, aloctin A, salicylate and saponins in the plant aloe vera efficacious as an antibacterial that can paralyze bacterium Bordetella and B. parapertussis. Aloe vera also acts as an antibiotic, anti-septic, anti-inflammatory and increase endurance.
Acubin, L. asperuloside, alizarin and some substances of anthraquinone contained in the noni fruit has been proven against the type of bacteria causing the infection. In addition, scolopetin compounds contained in Noni fruit is very effective as a anti-infective element.
The following recipe herbal plants which can be used to help treat whooping cough.
- 50-70 grams of aloe vera leaves peeled and taken inside.
- 1 ripe noni fruit, washed and cut into pieces.
Note:
Advised to remain in consultation with your doctor, especially if the cough did not want to heal.
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