In Reply to: I am really amazed at the responses posted by Frangipanni on Saturday, 16. June 2012 at 07:35 Bali Time:
still infectious, until after you have had a week long course of antibiotics.
The test for whooping cough depends mainly on a nasal swab. Most gps tend not to use a blood test, but they also tend to diagnose 'most' terrible coughs with no other obvious cause as whooping cough.
This is the advice I can give you. There are specific antibiotics for whooping cough, go to a doctor here, or google them and go to an apotek with their names on a bit of paper, and get them.
They do help a little, but more importantly, after a week you will no longer be contagious.
ON the bad side, I am fit and well, and it took me at least as long as 6 months to recover. I still have breathing issues now.
Good luck, and I have ticked my email address open if you owuld like to contact me.