What are the causes of chronic cough?

There are several types of cough and they all are caused by different reasons and they have different treatments from each other. There are many people who want to know the causes of chronic cough there are many more questions that what is a chronic cough? What is its symptoms? How to prevent it? But these all questions have their different answers, we will discuss these topics in detail later. According to doctors chronic cough is the type of cough that lasts more time than the other types of cough maybe it lasts 8 weeks or more.

What is a chronic cough?

Are you coughing from weeks? And still you’re not feeling relaxed then you should concern with a good doctor. A chronic cough is basically defined as a cough that lasts for 8 weeks in adults and 4 weeks in children. This type of cough can annoy you very much because it can disturb you in sleeping. Obviously it is not a dangerous cough but it’s annoying, nobody will feel comfortable with you while you’re suffering from chronic cough because they don’t want to be a patient too. There are many causes of chronic cough we will discuss them in detail but honestly you can’t guess that what type of cough you’re suffering from so you have to get a checkup from the doctor so he can tell you about this better. Now let’s come to the causes of this type of cough.

Causes of chronic cough

There are many reasons that a chronic cough is produced, some of them are listed below:

1-A stuffy nose

2-Wheezing

3-Shortness of breath

4-In rare cases, coughing up blood

5-A sour taste in your mouth

If a patient don’t smokes and also don’t have any disease then maybe he/she is suffering from chronic cough due to an allergic reaction. If you’re going to the doctor then you should try to know that when you feel coughing the most, like if you’re in a dry moist air and you’re coughing much then if you come to an air conditioner room and magically the coughing stops then the chronic cough must be due to the moist and dry air so you should avoid that environment. On the other hand pollutant air can also cause coughing because if your friend’s smokes and you don’t but you sit with them then you can also face coughing of any type. You must take proper dose of your medicines after concerning with the doctor.

Treatment

As we all know that all the health diseases requires to be treated properly and if you don’t take a treatment then it can be dangerous for you. In chronic cough the doctor may give you antibiotics or syrups and if the medicines are not giving you relaxation then try honey in 1 glass of hot milk. That was all for today I hope that we have cleared all your confusions related to chronic cough.