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 DEFINITION
The chronic cough is the one that persists for more than three weeks without having a clear cause. Some patients consult for this reason precozmente, while others only look for medical attention after several years, in which she can have had a course appellant.
TYPES OF COUGH AND POSSIBLE CAUSES
The chronic cough can be productive that is to say that in addition to the proper cough there is expectoration or exit of secretions for the mouth.
About this cases it is necessary to think in:
In case the cough should not be productive it is necessary to think in:
Other possible causes with uncertain cough:
- Adenopatías
- Aorta Aneurisma
- Environmental or labor pollution
- Producing cough medicines
- Betabloqueantes
- Other antihypertensive derivatives of the IECA
- Ebb gastroesofágico
- Cough psicógena, that is for discarding of other causes, and is usually to disappear with the sleep and when thing is dealt in others.
- Syndrome of Tourette with cough tic, is characterized by an explosive and repetitive cough, also it disappears with the sleep, collaborates to other motive tics with vocal tic and alterations of the conduct. There are familiar precedents
- Syndrome pertusis, or cough tosferinoide, is a cough in estacato that collaborates to vomiting in the accesses, one persists to six months. It begins with infection of top airlines. It can be sporadic or epidemic. It does not study with shortness of breath not sibilancias. It takes place day and night and deteriorates with exercise and irritants.
The treatment of the chronic cough will depend on a wide review of the possible causes after the diagnosis the causative initial process talks each other.
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