1. Purchase a SIM card if your carrier requires one. In order to activate your used phone, you will need to insert a SIM card for your plan. 1  Unless the device has been unlocked, it can generally only be activated on the same carrier it was originally activated on.
Whooping cough causes severe coughing spells, which can sometimes end in a whooping sound when the child breathes in. Before a vaccine was available, pertussis killed about 9,000 people in the United States each year. Now, the pertussis vaccine has reduced the annual number of deaths to less than 20.
GERD and persistent coughing. GERD is one of the most common causes of a persistent cough. In fact, researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine estimate that GERD is responsible for over 25 percent of all cases of chronic cough.