Missouri NAACP State Conference Â· January 29 at 4:07pm Â· Civil Rights Attorney, Frankie Muse Freeman, is Honored on House Floor by State Rep. Steven Roberts
The first symptoms of whooping cough are similar to those of a common cold: 1  runny nose. 2  sneezing. 3  mild cough.  low-grade fever.
During this second paroxysmal stage, there are extremely intense episodes of coughing, often called paroxysms of coughing. Symptoms include: In adults and teenagers, whooping cough paroxysmal symptoms are less severe than in babies and young kids-they are usually similar to the symptoms found in bronchitis.In very rare cases, whooping cough can cause sudden unexpected death in babies.hooping cough symptoms usually appear between six to twenty days after the Bordetella pertussis bacterium has infected the patient, in other words, pertussis has 6-to-20 day incubation period. The illness starts off with mild symptoms, which then get much worse before improving.