It can be easy to shrug off a cough, especially during cold and flu season. Butwhen it’s accompanied by other respiratory symptoms and becomes increasingly severe or long lasting, it could signal a ...

Think your cough is just a passing nuisance? Think again! A cough that lingers or worsens could be a silent signal of ...

Walking pneumonia, a lung infection caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, tends to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 has been rampant among young children.

For the unversed, Pneumonia is a lung infection in which the tiny air-sacs (alveoli) become inflamed and fill with fluid or ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Seasonal sickness among children is on the rise and may be severe for the youngest in your home. The CDC reports cases of whooping cough and walking pneumonia have risen ...

Pneumonia continues to be a silent killer. It reportedly claims over 2.5 million lives every year worldwide. One of the main symptoms of pneumonia is cough. But we are living in a time and age, where ...

Respiratory illnesses like walking pneumonia and whooping cough are continuing to spread, doctors say, with notable increases of walking pneumonia happening in young age groups. Walking pneumonia has ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – It’s Parenting Connection Tuesday and 6 News is here for you with tips, strategies, and helpful reminders from child development experts on how we can be better parents and ...

It started with what seemed like a run-of-the-mill cold. My three-year-old had a cough that wouldn’t go away, a fever that barely counted as one, and he stopped sleeping through the night. As a ...

In winter, when the weather is cold and dry, the number of infections increases, requiring caution from infants and toddlers.

Heading into the holidays, what are the symptoms to watch for, who is most at risk for whooping cough and who needs to get ...

Walking pneumonia is what it sounds like, a form of pneumonia so seemingly mild that people with the bacterial illness are often up and about—and inadvertently spreading germs. As the disease ...