article_snippet.sent: At first, Tara Hills thought Tara Hills kids had a bad cold, but then Tara Hills heard her kids deep, booming cough that made her kids gag and vomit - 'the kind of cough that stops a parent's heart,' Tara Hills recalled to National Post.
article_snippet.sent: After looking up the symptoms online - powerful coughing fits, runny nose, stringy phlegm - Tara Hills Tara Hills took their ailing brood to the hospital on the morning of April 2.
article_snippet.sent: Tara Hills six sons and a daughter between the ages of 10 months and 10 years (pictured) remain in quarantine and are being treated with antibiotics .
article_snippet.sent: Four days later, lab tests confirmed whooping cough - an infection of the respiratory system characterized by severe coughing spells, which mainly affects infants and children between the ages of 11 and 18.
article_snippet.sent: youngest children are still battling the illness, but are expected to recover .
article_snippet.sent: Tara Hills six sons and a daughter ranging in age from 10 months to 10 years have been ordered to remain in quarantine at Her six sons and a daughter ranging in age from 10 months to 10 years house in Kanata until Her six sons and a daughter ranging in age from 10 months to 10 years stop being contagious, which will take five days.
article_snippet.sent: On Thursday, Tara Hills said The Hills' youngest children have turned a corner and are now on the mend, while her kids are still battling the illness with the help of antibiotics.