I hope she never does. It was horrible. I was working in home health and am pretty sure I caught it from a patient so at least I know/knew I was at high risk and took that risk. We knew one person had it and I explained that I couldn't safely treat her. I went to another person's house and after I knew what whooping cough sounded like I knew that was what she had and that she was where I probably caught it (looking back). By the time I was symptomatic she wasn't testing positive anymore. I'm fairly sure I spread it to quite a few of my patients but they were diagnosed with "pneumonia". Some of them even said "this feels like whooping cough" and I couldn't say "well..........probably is".

I really hope your daughter never gets near anyone with it. If she ever suspects she has she needs to really advocate for a test before taking any antibiotic. The antibiotic only helps protect others from her and makes it so the test isn't accurate but it does let her know she's had it so delaying it won't hurt her and she won't feel good enough to do anything anyway. Honestly you pretty well know but it's good to be sure. It also lets the health dept. know that there has been a case and probably are more. I took the antibiotic b/c I didn't know (I think the doctors were trying to cover the healthcare professional spreading it through 3 counties) and so never was swabbed when I should have been.