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Acute Coughing Without Phelgum
acute coughing without phelgum...since last 5 days ...kindly advise medicines...!!
Sun, 18 Sep 2011
Anonymous's Response
Anonymous's
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Hi.. It may be an allergic cough.. Ginger tea is good for dry coughs.. You may try these with cough suppressants syrups such as benadryl..
Dear Anshuman,
Cough is just a symptom and not a disease in itself. It makes more sense to find out the cause of cough and then treat it. The causes vary from simple tonsillitis to lung cancer ! Usually, dry coughs do not serve a purpose (of removing respiratory secretions) and therefore can be safely suppressed with a cough suppressant preparation. This is not the solution though.
If I have to give you an example; you ask medicine for fever and doctor advises a tablet of crocin. It will relieve the fever but will it cure you?? You have neither looked for the cause of fever nor did you treat it !
-Dr. Tushar
Cough is just a symptom and not a disease in itself. It makes more sense to find out the cause of cough and then treat it. The causes vary from simple tonsillitis to lung cancer ! Usually, dry coughs do not serve a purpose (of removing respiratory secretions) and therefore can be safely suppressed with a cough suppressant preparation. This is not the solution though.
If I have to give you an example; you ask medicine for fever and doctor advises a tablet of crocin. It will relieve the fever but will it cure you?? You have neither looked for the cause of fever nor did you treat it !
-Dr. Tushar
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