
Ep. 3 The Fact About The Vax - Part 1
Informed Pregnancy Podcast
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What's the Solution to Pertussis?
There is available on u to viteos of babies with pertussus. For children, it's worse for little babies who don't have the musculature and the wherewithal in their thorax and their chest cavity to really produce a cough. They suffocate when they get this. So do we vaccinate the baby, or do we vacinate the parents? Well, interestingly, about 80 % of the time when babies get pertussus from household contact,. either an adult whose immunity has waned, or aten age, or who hasn't gotten there. This is why the d tap was made into a a vaccine called adice, which is for tenagers,
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