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What Causes Persistent Dry Cough?
Hi, my husband keeps coughing a lot. Its more of a dry cough. He was on madication which reduced his coughs, however its back again. The doctor said that this is to do with some rashes on his through. However, this time when he checked he said its not the rashes too. How do we understand the exact cause of this cough.
Fri, 31 Oct 2014
the various reasons for dry cough which persists more than 3 weeks and not associated with constitutional symptoms like weight loss or fever, include:
Allergic rhinitis causing a post nasal drip at the back of your throat( check with an ent specialist), gastric reflux, drugs like enalapril and ramipril, and prolonged viral infections due to immune deficiency states like B12 deficiency. Would suggest you have your nose and throat evaluated by ENT surgeon, take a course of Pantop with domstal for gastric reflux and check for vitamin B12 deficiency. you might also want to check for cough variant asthma by pulmonary function tests.
Allergic rhinitis causing a post nasal drip at the back of your throat( check with an ent specialist), gastric reflux, drugs like enalapril and ramipril, and prolonged viral infections due to immune deficiency states like B12 deficiency. Would suggest you have your nose and throat evaluated by ENT surgeon, take a course of Pantop with domstal for gastric reflux and check for vitamin B12 deficiency. you might also want to check for cough variant asthma by pulmonary function tests.
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