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Thread ID: 128048	2012-11-30 20:18:00	Whooping Cough flights	tut (12033)	PC World Chat

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1315695	2012-11-30 20:18:00	Back in the early 70's as a new Commercial Pilot in the Waikato about once a week we got a request for what became known as Whooping Cough flights The procedure was to take those afflicted (All young children from what I remember?) to 10,000 feet and spend 20 minutes there before returning. The whole flight took about 1 hour and I believe it was very worthwhile in either relieving the symptoms of the ailment or even curing it. No one seems to have heard of this these days and I wonder if any of our members know or have had experience of this?	tut (12033)
1315696	2012-11-30 21:27:00	Here you go: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov A lot of people don't know antibiotics weren't available for the public until WWII or just after. Until these came along there were all sorts of treatments for bacterial infections, none of which helped much. Wait until we're back to using them again. For real treatment here: en.wikipedia.org Even so, prevention is better....as there isn't a cure, just a help with symptoms.	pctek (84)
1315697	2012-11-30 21:45:00	The same thing use to be done with people that had cystic fibrosis. :)	Trev (427)
1315698	2012-11-30 22:11:00	I know at least one who is brain damaged because of 'a whooping cough' flight. Talk to your doctor.... (And after antibiotics were available).	R.M. (561)
1315699	2012-11-30 23:05:00	I had pertussis just a few months ago, still the occasional cough still. And I'm not my kiddie age. There is a vaccine but it is not that gauranteed and b/c it changes, you may need the vaccine regularly ... not available free to all people though. All I could do was live with it and take up to 240 or so ... grams of codeine, but not too much b/c depending on the person you can get nausea. You just put up with it for about 2 months before it really reduces off and it takes another 1.5 months after that before you don't mind the occasional cough. Even when I had codeine, it doesn't supress it. Codeine allows you to put it off for the timebeing if you are not talking, so read a book, watch TV, have a warm drink, a warm room with some humidity so it doesn't get dry or get irritated as you are rushing around or talking all the time ..... By the I and others see the doctor, it's too late for antibiotics ... so we got given codeine and got repeated prescriptions. About 2 months into it while I was coughing, I stopped using codeine due to the effects. At that point I cough so I just coughed, at night I cough while I slept but it didn't wake me. NZ at least Wellington has been hit hard, it was on the Ministry of Health homepage.	Nomad (952)
1315700	2012-11-30 23:20:00	Not sure about high altitude for me. When it was getting later in the day, darker, cooler, dryer air, I coughed more. Sunny, warmer, I coughed less.	Nomad (952)
1315701	2012-12-01 02:11:00	I wonder if it is the difference in air pressure that helps them to cough themselves clear of it? I remember well, as an asthmatic how wonderfully easy it was to breathe the cold higher altitude air on Ruehepu, compared to the denser air at sea level. If lungs are chocka with thick mucous, then thinner air can be breathed much deeper, and forced out faster, giving a better breath, and a harder cough to shift the muck. There's probably some decent science to support these flights if they're non pressurised.	Paul.Cov (425)
1315702	2012-12-01 02:26:00	I had a South African boss, who was amazed at the number of asmatics here in NZ, compared to SA, of which he told me were few coughers or asmatics.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1315703	2012-12-01 04:04:00	I had whooping cough when i was 1 week old apparently, probably lucky to be here chatting you great bunch	Gobe1 (6290)
1315704	2012-12-01 04:24:00	I had a South African boss, who was amazed at the number of asmatics here in NZ, compared to SA, of which he told me were few coughers or asmatics. A lot of it caused by kids being molly coddled when they are young and not being exposed to stuff makes them allergic to it later. Thats my theory anyway.	prefect (6291)
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