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Cough
What is Cough ?
A cough is an action your body takes to get rid of substances that are irritating to your air passages, which carry the air you breathe in from the nose and mouth to the lungs.
Causes of Cough
- Acute cough is most often caused by the common viral upper respiratory tract infection. The cough is usually secondary to stimulation of nasal, pharyngeal, and laryngeal mucosa receptors.
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A dry cough may follow viral illnesses and may last up to several weeks
- Chronic cough may be caused by diseases including asthma, cystic fibrosis, allergies, GERD and chronic post nasal drip.
- Smoking is a major cause of chronic cough.
Symptoms Of Cough
A physician should be called if
- the patient is producing green, yellow, or rusty colored sputum. This is usually the result of an infection.
- the cough lingers more than 7 to 10 days after other symptoms have cleared
any cough lasts longer than two weeks.
- a persistent fever is present or if the coughing up of blood occurs.
Diagnosis
Call your doctor's office to find out if any of the medicines you use could cause you to cough. If you are taking a medicine that can cause you to cough, your doctor might be able to prescribe another medicine for you. Don't stop taking a prescribed medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
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