Causes of prolonged cough in adults

Causes of dry cough without fever in adults

In our time it is difficult to find an adult or a child who would not cough at least once a day. Zagazovannost large cities and megacities, harmful emissions of industrial enterprises, a lot of different infections - living in a city about clean air can only dream of.

The human respiratory system is so arranged that when penetrating into the bronchi and lungs of infectious agents, allergens, dust, etc., due to irritation of the respiratory tract receptors, a cough occurs.

With its help, the tracheobronchial tree is cleansed of external and internal irritating agents, such as pus, mucus, sputum, blood or from foreign bodies - pollen, dust, food particles. The role of the cough is to prevent mechanical obstacles and cleanse the respiratory tract from sputum or other substances.

When a person has caught a cold and contracted a viral respiratory disease - the clinical picture is clear, the person rises high fever, runny nose, cough, tear, weakness and other symptoms of intoxication, characteristic of these diseases. In these cases, the cause of dry cough is clear. And how to understand why there is a cough without temperature in an adult or a child?

Many believe that cough is caused only by respiratory diseases, however, a prolonged dry cough may be a symptom of such serious diseases like heart failure, oncological diseases of the mediastinal organs, certain diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, sinusitis, sinusitis. The table below shows the symptoms and diagnosis of certain diseases that are characterized by a dry cough without fever or with a temperature of 37 ° C.

Cough and runny nose without fever

• With colds

may cause catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, runny nose, cough without body temperature or 37-3,. With such types of Orvy, the throat may not bother, but a common cold, cough without fever is characteristic. If the cough does not go away within 3 weeks after the onset of SARS, you should consult a therapist.

• Allergic reaction

on various flowering plants in an apartment or on the street, an allergy to dust is also accompanied by a dry non-productive cough, an allergy to pet hair, pet food or animal care products, a similar reaction is possible for perfumery and cosmetic products facilities.

Even in carpets and bedding there are a lot of allergens, which can be inadequate reaction of the body, which is expressed by dry cough and runny nose without temperature. Also, the massive use of various household chemicals, unsafe detergent powders with surfactants over 35% all this can affect the state of the respiratory system and manifest as a cough and runny nose without temperature.

• Post-infection cough

after acute infectious or viral inflammation of the respiratory tract cough with perspiration, coughing, feeling tickling or agitation, can last up to 3 weeks, and just unpleasant sensations and a rare coughing is possible before, months.

Dry prolonged cough without fever

• Stress

Stressful situations, nervous shocks, experiences can provoke a dry cough - this is called psychogenic cough, when a person worries, gets lost or embarrassed, he can cough up.

• Also, for a long time in a room with dry, dusty air, irritation in the respiratory tract may appear.
• Oncological diseases

If a prolonged severe dry cough without fever lasts more than a month, you should consult a therapist, pulmonologist, allergist, oncologist, phthisiatrist for the passage of a thorough diagnosis, since the diseases that cause incessant cough are very many - tuberculosis, lung cancer, bronchial cancer, trachea, throat.

• Heart Disease

Cardiac cough should be distinguished, for example, from the cough of a smoker or a bronchial cough. Such a cough occurs after physical activity and there is no sputum, however, sometimes with acute cardiac disease, bloody discharge after a dry cough is possible. This is due to the malfunctioning of the left ventricle, when the lungs are stagnant blood and its secretion with a cough. The person besides the cough is disturbed also by palpitation, and a short wind, and pains in the field of heart and so forth.

• Chronic diseases of ENT organs

often with chronic diseases of the nasopharynx, such as sinusitis, frontalitis, sinusitis due to the flow of mucus from the nose along the back wall of the throat, there may be a cough without temperature, it is concomitant and not associated with lower respiratory ways.

• Tuberculosis

a prolonged dry cough, a temperature of 37-3, indicates a possible tuberculous process in the lungs or bronchi. To date, the situation of tuberculosis is very tense, even among people of high social status, the development of this formidable disease, persistent stressful situations, overfatigue, inadequate rest reduce the defenses of the body and since 90% of the population by the age of 30 is infected with a stick of Koch, provoking factors can lead to the activation of the mycobacterium in organism.

• Thyroid gland diseases

with a nodular or diffuse increase in the thyroid gland, pressure on the trachea occurs, causing a dry cough without temperature in adults.

• Some diseases of the digestive tract

can also cause a dry cough without fever, a reflex cough after eating in the case of an esophageal-tracheal fistula, reflux esophagitis, and esophageal diverticulum.

• If foreign matter enters the respiratory tract.

Name of the disease	Characteristics of cough and other symptoms	Body temperature	Diagnostics
Some types of ARVI	Cough is first dry, then it becomes wet with sputum secretion	The temperature may not be or may be low-grade 37-3,	Examination of the therapist, pediatrician, general blood test
Chronic bronchitis, smoker's bronchitis	Chronic coughing is usually deaf, especially attacks in the morning, in the cold, when inhaling gassed or smoky air. With prolonged chronic bronchitis, sputum may be purulent.	With exacerbation or acute bronchitis, the temperature usually rises, especially with acute bronchitis in children, but with chronic temperature there is not or 37 with little.	Radiography of the chest, examination of the therapist, a general blood test, bacterial sputum culture on the sensitivity to antibiotics in the case of purulent sputum.
Chronic frontitis, sinusitis, rhinitis	For such diseases is characterized by frequent dry cough, especially at night.	In acute sinusitis and frontal sinusitis, the temperature is high, but with a chronic process, a cough and a temperature of 37 or normal	Examination with an otolaryngologist, an x-ray of the paranasal sinuses of the nose
Oncological diseases of the mediastinum	With oncological diseases cough can be dry, debilitating	Without temperature	Examination at a pulmonologist, oncologist - X-ray, MRI of mediastinal organs, bronchoscopy, blood test, oncomarker, etc.
Tuberculosis	Persistent cough with sputum or sparse phlegm, weakness, decreased appetite and performance, night sweats, chills.	The temperature is normal in the morning, by evening usually low-grade 37-3,	Chest x-ray, Computed tomography, tuberculin tests, phthisiatric consultation.
Professional cough	Appears in people working in hazardous manufacturing plants, when in the air many different chemicals, dust, such a cough is dry, exhausting without sputum	Without temperature	Inspection of the therapist, pulmonologist, X-ray of the lungs to exclude other pathologies.
Allergic reactions, allergic bronchitis	Cough is dry, without phlegm, in the form of perspiration, irritation, occurs after contact with the allergen - animals, dust, plant pollen, fluff, feather, wool, household chemicals, perfumes, washing powders.	Without temperature	Consultation of an allergist, immunologist
Heart failure, rhomboembolism of the pulmonary artery, heart defects,	A dry, prolonged cough without fever occurs after physical exertion and is strengthened in the prone position, but after the adoption of the vertical position it weakens. It is accompanied by shortness of breath, palpitation, high blood pressure, sometimes there are attacks of suffocation.	Without temperature	First, consult a therapist, then a cardiologist.
Lungs' cancer	In addition to dry coughing, people are concerned about chest pains. In the long-term process, dry cough can be accompanied by periodic sputum discharge with pus or blood.	Dry cough, temperature 37-3, or it may not be	Consultation of the oncologist-chest x-ray, bronchoscopy, general blood test, oncomarkers, etc.
Throat cancer	Signs of throat cancer, larynx in this disease is characterized by dry cough without temperature, not amenable to treatment, as well as possible shortness of breath, as the laryngeal lumen narrows. Sputum can be with blood, also blood can be in saliva and mucus from the nose.	Without temperature or 37-3,	Consultation of an otolaryngologist, oncologist.
Use of certain medicines	These drugs include: drugs for hypertension, ACE inhibitors, nitrofurans, beta-blockers, aspirin, amiodarone, Inhalation drugs-beclomethasone, ipratropium bromide, are able to cause a cough without temperature, chronic unproductive.	Without temperature	Tell the cardiologist about the drugs that you take and that they cause a cough.
Pneumonia in the elderly	It is very rare, but there are cases when pneumonia occurs without a temperature or with a slight unobtrusive increase, usually it is typical for the elderly, while, in addition to coughing, chest pains, weakness, loss appetite.	Pneumonia sometimes occurs without high fever with a strong cough, especially in weakened and elderly people.	Address to the therapist, chest X-ray, a general blood test.

If a person is worried that he has a severe dry cough without fever and other symptoms of colds, he suffers from attacks of dry cough for a long time, do not delay the visit to therapist.

• First of all, one should be alerted and analyze when most often there are coughing attacks - if this is related to the quality of the inhaled air, the presence of new furniture, fresh repair in the apartment or the appearance of an animal, woolen or fur clothing, other clothes of poor quality - it is most likely a defensive reaction of the broncho-pulmonary system to toxic substances in dyes, plastics, particle boards, mattresses, carpets, etc. household items or an allergic reaction to wool, fur, fluff, feather, etc.
• If the cough is only at a certain time - only in the morning, most likely it is chronic bronchitis. If on the contrary, only at night or in a horizontal position - a heart cough, cough with diseases of ENT organs. If during a meal - it can be a cancer of the throat, larynx, gastrointestinal tract.
• Pay attention to the color, amount and consistency of sputum, this must be reported to the doctor, what color is it, whether there are impurities of blood, pus (yellow-green).

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Cough does not pass with an adult for two weeks or a month: what to do

Among many symptoms of cough is a complex and unpleasant manifestation. Therefore, if it does not go through a week or a month, the patient begins to worry and suspect the presence of serious illnesses.

Sometimes after the course of catarrhal disease there is a cough that does not end for a long time. At the same time, various means and methods of treatment were tried. In such a case, medical care must be treated if the cough does not go away for more than 15 days.

But why does this symptom not disappear quickly? Perhaps the body was depleted during the course of the cold and at this inopportune time it was infiltrated by an infection or a virus.

The organism can overcome viruses independently, but only if it is not weakened. Therefore, in order to successfully cure a prolonged cough, it is necessary to find out which microorganism triggered its appearance, so it is necessary to conduct all necessary studies.

Prolonged cough: causes

If the cough does not pass for a long time, for example, a cough does not pass a month, then the following infections and diseases contribute to it:

1. pneumocysts;
2. mycoplasma;
3. fungal microflora (chlamydia, candida);
4. tuberculosis.

In addition, the infection can be mixed. This option is the worst, because the course of such diseases is quite difficult. At the same time, the patient experiences weakness, his temperature rises and sweat becomes abundant.

It is worth noting that the wrong, inferior or untimely treatment of such diseases leads to their progression.

All the above microorganisms can enter the body by airborne droplets, when the infected person sneezes or coughs.

The chances of infection are doubled if the adult's body is weakened or he experiences heavy workloads.

Therefore, the immune system should be strengthened, there are plenty of vegetables and fruits, sleep and play sports.

What if the cough does not stop a week?

Coughing is an involuntary exhalation reflex that occurs as a result of irritation of the laryngeal mucosa, bronchial tubes or throat and lung tissue. Thanks to this symptom, the airways are cleaned of foreign bodies, harmful microorganisms, mucus, dust and sputum.

To the reasons provoking a long cough, it is possible to carry:

• colds;
• allergy;
• emotional overstrain.

Moreover, the cough can be wet or dry, night, day, periodic, paroxysmal and so on.

Treatment of a week cough

If the cause of the weekly cough was ARD, then the doctor prescribes antitussive drugs, with this you can not take antibiotics, since they only affect bacteria. But antibacterial agents may be appropriate for bronchitis and pneumonia, which are accompanied by symptoms such as fever and severe cough syndrome.

In addition to antibiotics, if the week does not pass a severe cough, expectorants are prescribed on the basis of medicinal plants. In addition, the doctor can prescribe immunomodulating drugs, which activate the protective functions of the body and expel the effect of antiviral drugs.

It is worth noting that if the cough is not only not more than a week, but also accompanied by pain in the chest, high temperature (38 and more), and when expectoration is allocated bloody, green or yellow sputum, then you can not do self-medication, but you need to quickly turn to the doctor.

There are some recommendations that are important to observe when treating a prolonged cough in an adult. So that the throat is not dry, you need to drink a lot of liquid. To this end, every evening you can drink warm milk with honey.

Morse and juices are no less useful. In addition, if a dry cough does not pass for more than a week, you should drink fresh juice from black radish (three times a day for 1 tbsp. l.).

What if the cough does not stop within a month?

Why there is a long cough and what to do to eliminate it? If this symptom does not last a month, then perhaps the whole fault is the following factors:

1. congenital pathologies of the lungs;
2. bronchitis;
3. a foreign body in the respiratory tract;
4. pneumonia;
5. tuberculosis;
6. bronchial asthma.

For successful treatment of a long cough it is important to know whether this symptom was the root cause of the disease or whether it developed during its course. In addition, it is necessary to determine its character - productive or unproductive, frequent or rare, spastic or paroxysmal and so on.

It is necessary to consult a doctor quickly if a cough with phlegm does not last more than a month and is accompanied by such signs as:

• severe swelling;
• sweating;
• nausea;
• weight loss;
• colorless, thick discharge or sputum with blood impurities;
• lack of appetite;
• dyspnea;
• heat;
• fast fatiguability;
• retrosternal pain.

In addition, a long cough can become chronic. To prevent this from happening, one should go to the doctor if the cough reflex does not stop within five days. Many people do not pay enough attention to this symptom, and even more so if it is not accompanied by weakness, runny nose and fever, but in case of no treatment the time will be irretrievably lost.

When the cough does not stop for about four weeks, it is necessary to make an appointment for an ENT, a therapist, an allergist, a phthisiatrist, and possibly a pulmonologist. Doctors after the survey will be able to determine why the cough does not stop for so long and what to do to cure it.

So, a cough lasting for a month may indicate the presence of:

1. pneumonitis;
2. chronic bronchitis;
3. heart failure;
4. bronchial asthma;
5. cancerous metastases or lung cancer;
6. sinusitis;
7. asbestosis;
8. tuberculosis;
9. whooping cough;
10. pleurisy;
11. silicosis.

But in order to finally determine the cause of prolonged cough, additional research will be required. This can be a blood test, sputum culture on the flora, a blood test for mycoplasma and chlamydia, a Mantoux test and a lung X-ray.

In addition, a cough that lasts for more than 4 weeks is typical for smokers and people working in harmful production, where they constantly inhale mold and dust.

So, silicosis often develops in miners, asbestosis - in builders, and pnevonit - in the agricultural sector.

Treatment of a cough that lasts longer than a month

It is worth noting that without medical advice to treat a prolonged cough is inappropriate. After all, depending on the cause, a certain method of treatment is needed, for example, with heart failure it is senseless to drink antitussive syrups, swallow tablets or do inhalations.

So, for the successful treatment of an incessant cough in an adult it is important to restore the water balance, so the patient needs to drink plenty of fluids. In this case, the patient's diet should not be too high in calories, it is best to enrich it with fruits and vegetables.

In addition, it is effective to perform inhalations with cough with the addition of coniferous oil, coltsfoot, baking soda, thyme, sage and chamomile.

When productive cough with viscous secretions, you need to use drugs that dilute sputum. These drugs include mucolytics and expectorants.

And it is better, if the basis of such funds will be medicinal plants. And with a small number of excretions are assigned expectorant syrups and tablets.

But it is worth noting that such drugs should not be taken together with antitussive drugs.

Prolonged cough

A prolonged cough is one that does not last 4-8 weeks. Therefore, a two-week cough is considered only a suspicion of a prolonged symptom.

So, if a cough for a long time does not pass, then its causes can be covered in the presence of such diseases:

• bronchial asthma;
• left ventricular failure;
• HIV infection;
• tuberculosis;
• lungs' cancer.

In addition, it is necessary to conduct a thorough diagnosis of the patient, allowing to identify the causes of a long-term cough. Thus, rapid and confused breathing is characteristic of cardiac (acrocyanosis) and pulmonary insufficiency. If there is a suspicion of bronchiectasis and lung cancer, the ENT conducts a test called "drumsticks."

Still mandatory inspection of the mucous nasopharynx or pharynx. In this case, the doctor examines the discharge from the nose, confirms or excludes the presence of polyps in the nasal cavity and sinusitis, manifested by pain sensations in the projection of the paranasal sinuses.

It is worth noting that the temperature with prolonged cough may not always be elevated. It accompanies only a few diseases, such as sinusitis, tuberculosis and pneumonia.

In addition, the doctor should examine the patient's neck. In the process of investigation, such manifestations as a positive venous pulse can be detected, which indicates pulmonary insufficiency.

With an increase in the posterior or anterior cervical lymph nodes and nodes of the supraclavicular area, there is a suspicion of cancer of the larynx or lungs. And when listening you can find signs such as noise, local or scattered dry wheezes.

To get rid of a protracted cough, the most commonly prescribed drugs that activate the immune system. To this end, the patient should take funds based on rhodiola rosea, ginseng, eleutterococcus. As a rule, they are used after antibiotic therapy. in the video in this article, the expert will tell. what to do with a prolonged cough.

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Causes and treatment of prolonged cough in adults

The treatment of prolonged cough in adults is a long process. Cough often accompanies catarrhal diseases, but sometimes it remains for a long time. It takes several weeks, and he is still with you. To the aid come medicines, medicinal plants and physiotherapy.

What is a cough?

Coughing is a reflex contraction of the respiratory muscles causing a sudden expulsion of air from the lungs in response to irritation of the mucous larynx, pleura, trachea and bronchi. As a result, the respiratory tract clears from foreign particles or accumulated mucus. Cough, which does not cause a bronchial secretion (sputum), is called dry or unproductive. A peculiar opposite is a cough accompanied by excretion of phlegm. It is called wet.

Depending on the time during which a cough is observed, it is divided into:

1. Acute - lasting less than 2 weeks.
2. Prolonged - lasts up to 4 weeks.
3. Subacute cough - lasting for 2 months.
4. Chronic cough - uninterrupted for more than 2 months.

Causes of protracted cough

1. The most common cause is the complication of infectious and viral diseases, when the pathogen settles and actively multiplies in the bronchi.
2. Untimely or incorrect treatment of cold and flu is accompanied by a chronic cough. For example, if the disease was initially viral, and it was treated with antibiotics. As a result, the disease worsened and complications developed. Often adults try to suffer a cold on their feet, justifying their workload and other excuses, thus delaying treatment. They consult a doctor only after they have been knocked down by a fever and a complete malaise. The launched disease "gave roots" in the bronchi and lungs.
3. Postnazalnoe flowing discharge from the nose into the larynx, developing with allergies or chronic infectious diseases.
4. Chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease are also accompanied by a prolonged cough.
5. As one of the side effects of some drugs for heart failure and hypertension, for example, Enalapril.
6. Chronic and protracted cough quite often appears in smokers with experience after the transfer of cold or viral diseases. The mucous airway of a smoker differs from that of an ordinary person. Smokers have reduced immunity to respiratory infections.
7. A prolonged dry cough can develop against a background of allergies. Receptors on bronchial mucosa and larynx become incredibly sensitive to irritants: dust, tobacco smoke, pollen of plants and animal hair.

It is worth mentioning that a cough, lasting several weeks or months, in the absence of other symptoms can signal the presence of serious diseases: tuberculosis and lung cancer. In addition, without adequate treatment, chronic cough in adults can go to pneumonia (pneumonia), bronchial asthma, pleurisy or lung abscess, which is a danger for life.Doing self-medication can be dangerous, it is better to go to a consultation with an experienced therapist, an ENT doctor and a pulmonologist.

To establish an accurate diagnosis, a specialist will assign a series of tests and examinations: blood tests, analysis sputum, fluorography, tests of the function of external respiration (tussography, bodipletizmography, spirography and spirometry).

How to cure a chronic cough

Depending on the patient's condition, clinical symptoms and examination results, the doctor will recommend one or another treatment regimen. Chronic non-productive cough is tried to convert into productive, that is, in the one where sputum goes away. To do this, prescribe expectorant drugs that contribute to the removal of bronchial mucus. In addition, they recommend drugs that stimulate expectoration: preparations of reflex or resorptive action, as well as those that dilute sputum. These include mucolytics, cysteine ​​preparations and proteolytic drugs.

In accordance with the nature of the chronic cough and the disease that provoked it, antiviral drugs, antibiotics and antihistamines are prescribed.

With a dry, unproductive cough, at night, preparations containing codeine are recommended, as well as Sinekod. At night, the thorax and back can be smeared with warming ointment.

Inhalation is a very effective method of treating cough. They can be carried out using an ultrasonic or compressor inhaler. The vapors of the drug together with the air flow enter the bronchi. This helps to restore the mucosa, increase blood circulation and improve the excretion of sputum. Folk remedies testify to the usefulness of inhaling the fumes emanating from a hot pan, where they insisted on collecting medicinal herbs. An example is a strawberry with elderberry, raspberry with lime color and mother-and-stepmother, as well as raspberry with sage and mother-and-stepmother.

Inhalations with aromatic oils have an analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect. Take a shallow wide container and pour water into it with a temperature of no higher than 40 ° C. Pour 2-3 drops of eucalyptus, menthol or mint oil into the water. Cover yourself with a towel and inhale the couples for 5-7 minutes. Half an hour later, this procedure can be supplemented with a warm-water inhalation.

In the treatment of chronic cough, it is very useful to do similar inhalations. The thermal effect accelerates the dilution and excretion of mucus from the lumen of the bronchi. Plus, the dryness of the mucous membranes decreases. To the pharmacy physiological solution, heated to 38-42 ° C, antibiotics recommended by the doctor, sulfonamides, hormones or other components are added. In some cases, inhalation is carried out with a warm soda solution or alkaline mineral water. The procedure should last no more than 10 minutes.

Folk remedies

People's remedies for a protracted cough may be inhalation with infusions and decoctions of medicinal plants. For this, in 2 liters of boiling water, sprinkle 2 tablespoons of dry grass (chamomile, eucalyptus leaves, fragrant violet, sage, and others) and cover with a lid. Wait for the solution to cool slightly, and then breathe for 5-10 minutes.

Folk remedies for coughing recommend breathing hot infusion of onion and garlic. Onions and garlic are peeled, cut and poured to ¼ of the volume in a ceramic kettle. Boiling water is poured into about a third of the tank. Inhale the vapors coming from the teapot spout.

Banks are another means for fighting cough. It is desirable to find special small jars with a rounded bottom. Note that the procedure requires an assistant.

Drink a decoction of linden flowers. Pour 3 tablespoons of dry inflorescences with a glass of boiling water and hold in a water bath for 15 minutes. Dumb a cooled infusion filter and drink warmly 3 times a day.

Infusion of thyme has expectorant properties. 2 tablespoons of herbs pour a glass of boiling water and heat on a water bath for 20 minutes. Strain and drink thrice a day three times a day.

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To soften the cough and excrete sputum, you can make a decoction of the grass of the violet tricolor. For this, a glass of boiling water is poured into one tablespoon of chopped herb. Keep in a water bath for half an hour, the solution is filtered and consumed half a cup 3 times a day.

In the treatment of acute and protracted cough, an infusion of flowers and leaves of mother-and-stepmother is prepared as an expectorant and an anti-inflammatory agent. Add one tablespoon of dry herbs to a glass of boiling water, insist for an hour. Take infusion of a quarter cup 4 times a day.

Along with this expectorant action is famous plantain, from which the infusion is prepared. A teaspoon of boiled water is 1 teaspoon of crushed leaves of plantain. After a lapse of 30 minutes, the solution should be filtered and drunk 1 tablespoon three times a day. To raise immunity and accelerate recovery, the doctor can recommend alcohol tincture of ginseng, echinacea, rhodiola pink or eleutherococcus.

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Treating a chronic cough with folk remedies is possible, but only as an addition to the medication prescribed by the doctor.

It is important not only to stop the cough, but also to destroy bacteria that multiply on the mucous membrane of the bronchi, withdraw all sputum and improve immunity.

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Why does not a dry cough go away? Causes of dry cough in children and adults

Coughing is a reflex, just like breathing itself. And his appearance indicates that there was some kind of pathogen - allergic, infectious, viral, that is, the cause of dry cough, serious or not, which causes irritation in the respiratory tract and causes the body to clear them of the - allergen, infection, virus or foreign body.

Cough itself is not a disease, it is a symptom of over 50 different diseases or allergic manifestations, from common cold to tuberculosis, oncology, bronchial asthma or heart disease. Most often, a dry cough lasts for several days, moving into productive, moist with sputum, but can sometimes be prolonged. The duration of dry cough is divided into:

• Acute - which after a few days passes into the wet or passes
• Prolonged - which lasts from 3 weeks to 3 months
• Chronic - which lasts more than 3 months.

Let's see why the dry cough does not last a long time, which diseases are the cause of dry cough.

The main causes of dry cough associated with the respiratory system

The most common causes of dry cough are inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract, which are caused by viruses and pathogenic bacteria.

In this case, a strong organism with a strong immune system cope on its own, and if the immune response the virus or infection is weakened, then antibiotics or antiviral drugs come in for ARVI and influenza.

When parainfluenza and the flu should always consult a doctor, as these are very insidious diseases, which recently become very aggressive, leading to a mass of complications. How to distinguish the flu from ARVI read in our article.

If during the acute respiratory viral infection, flu or other infectious disease, a dry cough does not last for a long time, it can be caused by:

• firstly because the immune system in a person is significantly weakened
• Secondly, that there are provoking factors that affect the duration of dry cough, they include: smoking and drinking alcohol, very dry air in the room and taking in insufficient amounts of fluids for cold or viral disease.
• thirdly, the attachment of a secondary infection or complication after a viral disease, when bacterial bronchitis, pneumonia, tracheitis, pharyngitis develops, etc.

Diseases of the pleura and lungs can also be accompanied by a dry, painful cough - pneumonia, pleurisy. Most often there is a high fever, shortness of breath, chest pain.

Atypical forms of pneumonia

It should also be borne in mind that a prolonged cough can be a consequence of mycoplasma and chlamydia, these pathogens microorganisms can cause atypical pneumonia, bronchitis, which can occur for a long time, periodically recur. To differentiate the pathogen that caused pneumonia or bronchitis, you can take a blood test using ELISA.

Pertussis, measles, false croup

Pertussis can cause dry cough in children, and in adults. Pertussis is considered to be a childhood infectious disease, although vaccinations have reduced cases of whooping cough among children, but they occur, in addition, weakened adults also sometimes recorded cases of whooping cough. With this disease, a convulsive cough is so severe that it often leads to vomiting. In this case, you should take antitussive remedies for dry cough, such as Sinekod, Libeksin, Bronholitin, and others.

In addition to pertussis, among childhood diseases characterized by a strong dry cough, measles and false groats can be identified. Measles, other than cough, is also characterized by rashes on the skin and mucous membranes (see Fig. symptoms of measles in children). With false croup, the vocal cords, larynx, trachea and bronchi are involved in the inflammation process, so it is characterized by a barking cough. This disease is more likely to affect children under 3 years old.

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is a formidable disease that has also been epidemic in recent years, not only among low-income as it is commonly believed, but also among the wealthy strata of the population, with the development of favorable factors for its progression. Constant nervous tension, stressful situations, lack of adequate nutrition and good rest, fascination various depleting diets, can lead to the development of tuberculosis even among businessmen and high social status.

By 20-30 years it is believed that each person is infected with a stick of Koch, but a strong immune system copes with it. It is only necessary to weaken the body and mycobacterium tuberculosis can become more active and cause pulmonary tuberculosis and extrapulmonary forms.

As for the dry cough, it can be caused by tuberculosis of the lungs, bronchi or trachea, larynx. It begins with a dry, unproductive cough, obtrusive coughing, weakness, while body temperature rarely is more than 3, -3, most often it rises to low-grade figures and only in the evening.

Tuberculosis can be the cause of dry cough in adults, as well as in children, which is especially dangerous, as tuberculosis today is not the tuberculosis that was 40 years ago. Now a large number of drug-resistant forms of this terrible disease are registered, which require a longer and expensive treatment, and in combination with other chronic illnesses in the patient or HIV infection lead to lethal outcome.

Laryngitis, pharyngitis, tracheitis

are also frequent causes of dry cough. With pharyngitis, the mucous pharynx is involved in the inflammatory process, and with laryngitis, the mucous larynx is involved. Both these diseases are both acute and chronic, cough while it is dry, barking, exhausting, intensifying at night. With frequent inhalation of dusty air, dry, cold, and also in the presence of irritating gases and vapors in the air, tracheitis can develop - both acute and chronic. There is also a painful dry cough.

Diseases of ENT organs

Against the backdrop of various diseases of the nasopharynx, such as sinusitis, sinusitis, or chronic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, the appearance of night dry cough is due to the syndrome of postnasal swelling. When these diseases acquire a chronic course, not infrequently, the mucus that is separated from the nasal sinuses begins to flow down the back wall of the pharynx, it irritates the cough receptors in the tracheobronchial tree. This cough may seem productive and moist, since nasal mucus is released during cough, but this cough should be considered dry.

Oncological diseases of respiratory organs

Cancer of the bronchi, lungs, trachea, throat cancer, and mediastinal organs (organs located between the sternum and the spine - the heart, bronchi, aorta, etc.). If the dry cough does not persist for a long time, it worries both day and night, as soon as possible, turn to doctor, blood test, X-ray of lungs, according to indications, MRI of mediastinal organs, bronchoscopy, oncolikers. With any chronic cough it is necessary to find out the exact cause of its appearance, for today the oncological tension is getting stronger, cancer appears even in young people, and everyone knows that the timely detection of cancer increases the chances of recovery or significant prolongation of life.

Only on the basis of the examination the doctor can not establish the cause of a protracted cough - this is not possible, therefore it is necessary to pass the tests and pass several examinations according to the indications - blood test, sputum, spirography, spirometry, X-ray, bronchoscopy, bodipletizmography, tussography, MRI, CT.

Causes of dry cough, not associated with inflammatory processes of the respiratory system

Allergic cough

In recent decades, the number of people suffering from various allergic reactions has increased significantly among the Russian population, especially in children. Almost all children today have any allergic reactions, if not food allergy, so allergy to dust, wool, pollen, ticks, etc. Pollinosis - a seasonal allergy to the pollen of flowering plants, which appears in spring and summer, has a hay fever very a large number of people, it is manifested by sneezing, runny nose, tearing, itching mucous and dry allergic cough.

Bronchial asthma

a very common disease, characterized by a chronic, painful dry cough and attacks of suffocation. This disease can not be considered only a disease of the bronchi, it is a serious pathology, which is associated with a general violation of immunity, nervous system and allergy.

The impact of toxic substances in everyday life

household chemicals containing chlorine, washing powders, etc., the presence of cities in the air, megacities of the abundance of exhaust gases, leads to the emergence of an allergic dry cough. Also pay attention to when you started a dry cough, it may be somehow connected with the purchase of new furniture, new repairs, purchase of household appliances. Modern industry, especially the production of plastic, furniture, building materials, even children's toys, often uses abundance toxic chemicals that can irritate mucous nasopharynx, bronchi, causing chronic chemical poisoning. If there are a lot of such products in the room, they are new and exude a smell - this can be the cause of a dry cough.

Glistular invasion

Occasionally, cases of ascariasis are recorded, during which, during the migration of the ascarid larvae along a small circle of circulation, they linger in the lung tissue, causing a superficial dry cough. Getting into the lungs, the trachea and the bronchi, they cause irritation of the cough receptors, the migration phase with ascariasis is 8-14 days (see Fig. ascarids-symptoms and treatment).

Professional dry cough

The reason for its appearance may be related to work in harmful production, where in the air a mass of suspensions of toxic substances that cause dry cough in the workers is formed. Workers of the stone-working and coal-mining industry often develop silicosis of the lungs. Also among occupational diseases that cause dry cough is the disease of American farmers or fibrosing alveolitis, where dry cough is only a debut of pathology, the outcome of which is a severe respiratory failure.

Some diseases of the gastrointestinal tract

Some diseases of the gastrointestinal tract provoke a dry reflex cough without temperature, it happens after eating with diverticula of the esophagus, esophagus-tracheal fistula, reflux-esophagitis.

Acceptance of certain medicines

as a rule, ACE inhibitors, which are used to lower blood pressure and treat other cardiovascular diseases. In 20% of patients, these medicines cause a dry cough, if after discontinuation of the drug it disappears, therefore, this cough was a side effect of the drug taken.

Cardiovascular diseases, heart failure may also be the cause of dry cough

The cause of allergies, a provoker of allergic reactions can be established with the help of tests, which will be directed by an allergist. It is worth taking seriously any manifestations of allergy, as it is not just a dry cough, runny nose or a rash, with a strong an allergic reaction can occur anaphylactic shock, Quincke's edema, which without timely medical care can be deadly.

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What does a constant cough in an adult mean?

A constant cough in an adult: normal or pathological? Any cough, which for a long time does not pass, for example, for a month or more, should alert everyone. Coughing in an adult is a protective reaction of the body that occurs for a certain reason, therefore, every conscious person must determine the provoking factor and choose options for it elimination.

In most cases, people turn to a doctor when already diagnosed with serious, neglected diseases, and the cough turns into a prolonged one, and the person can not even clear his throat.

What can provoke a prolonged cough?

In medical practice, it is common to distinguish between the infectious and non-infectious cause of the development of a strong cough.

Non-infectious diseases include:

1. Chronic forms of rhinitis, sinusitis, sinusitis, in which the nasal mucosa is constantly swollen. Sputum does not go outside and falls into the bronchi and trachea.
2. Because of the excessive amount of spices in the stomach, acidity may increase and heartburn may occur. It can manifest as a cough.
3. Allergic reactions of the body to irritants. In this case, the cough will be dry and prolonged.
4. The reaction of the body to certain medications that have already caused addiction.
5. Contaminated air in the workplace or in the village.
6. Diseases of the cardiovascular system.
7. Presence of tumors in the airways or lungs.

Varieties of prolonged cough in adults

With any cough, the manifestations will be different. Therefore, it is worthwhile to know that there are several types of pathology:

Intrusive. It is characteristic for diseases or inflammations in the larynx. Such a cough usually lasts long, appears at the initial stage of the cold. When the patient recovered, and the immunity did not recover, the cough continues to manifest and is more a protective reaction of the body.

If at this stage, not to help restore the immune system, then cough is a direct way to the bronchi. This leads to the development of acute bronchitis, which is treated for a long time, and in many cases takes a chronic form. If you do not organize the correct treatment, then a prolonged cough causes deformation of the bronchial walls, this leads to asthma, lung abscesses and pneumonia.

Many patients at the doctor's appointment indicate pain in the side, shortness of breath, fever, which accompany the main symptom.

A cough with wheezing or whistling is characteristic of whooping cough.

Barking - tracheitis or laryngitis.

Vocal cords are inflamed, in the chest you can clearly hear bubbling breath.

Most often this cough torments the patient at night or early in the morning. There have been cases when choking occurs with improper treatment or neglect. A bout of dry cough with tracheitis or laryngitis can last up to 1 hour.

If the cough provokes a fever, a decrease in the tone of the voice, then this may indicate the development of tuberculosis.

ARI, ARVI has an obsessive cough.

Cough in the morning is typical for bronchial asthma. There are attacks of suffocation. Doctors emphasize that this kind of cough should only be treated, as it can lead to death.

Mental disorders are characterized by a metallic dry cough during eating, talking and have the effect of suddenness.

Treatment of dry cough in adults

Cough smoker

Almost all smokers are diagnosed with chronic obstructive disease, which can cause lung cancer.

Tobacco smoke contains a large number of harmful substances, many of them are diagnosed as poisons for the human body. When the smoke is inhaled, irritation of the bronchial mucosa occurs, while the part remains inside and settles on the organ itself. This provokes oppression of the normal operation of the epithelium. After a short period of time, the epithelium generally ceases to fulfill its function of expelling harmful substances to the surface, and the bronchi absorb everything that gives them the smoke of a cigarette.

This situation leads to chronic inflammation of non-infectious bronchial tubes.

Given that the bronchi lose their normal ability to fight and clear, joining any infection will not cause any special difficulties. Smokers have many cases of combining infectious and chronic bronchitis, which are superimposed on each other. These circumstances cause a prolonged course of the illness and the very recovery.

There are several options for treating a cough from a smoker. When using traditional medicine, it is necessary to get a consultation with a pulmonary physician. In general, mucolytics, expectorants are used for treatment. If a patient is diagnosed with an infection, then a course of antibiotics is prescribed.

You can use folk methods for treatment. It is enough to use herbal preparations from oregano, mother-and-stepmother, thyme, licorice root, marshmallow, plantain, calendula.

Good warming and grinding help.

Visiting a Russian bath, therapy with the use of essential oils help to remove an irritating cough.

Cure a smoker's cough completely can only give up cigarettes.

Cough dry for allergic reactions, tracheitis and laryngitis

In order to successfully treat a prolonged cough due to such manifestations, it is necessary to find out exactly the causes. All activities should be performed only after consultation with the doctor.

Patients with prolonged cough need to ensure:

• constant drinking, preferably decoctions of medicinal herbs;
• for the removal of spasm can be stocked with medical candy, which includes components for the activation of the glands and the ingestion of saliva;
• administration of inhalation with saline solutions;
• to carry out regular airing and wet cleaning at home, so that the air in the room is constantly moistened.

As drugs, it is recommended to take mucolytic drugs, in severe cases, narcotic drugs may be prescribed to stop severe attacks of cough.

Worth knowing! It is forbidden to take both antitussive and expectorant drugs at the same time, as there are cases of cupping sputum in the bronchi. This leads to the development of inflammatory processes.

From folk medicine can be used inhalation. With caution, you need to choose solutions for inhalation with an allergic cough. Herbs and oils can provoke additional allergic reactions and only worsen the patient's condition.

For everyone, inhalation with a soda solution is good. They help to translate dry cough into wet, dilute sputum and discharge them outside.

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What is dangerous is the lack of treatment for a prolonged cough?

Prolonged reflex coughs of various types are dangerous for the human body and can lead to serious complications:

1. Myocardial infarction. Since a prolonged cough affects the work of the bronchi adversely, an infectious disease develops or becomes chronic in them. Inflammatory processes in the bronchi affect the organs that are near.
2. Such manifestations can cause psychological and psychosocial problems. It is difficult for a person to stay for a long time in public places, at work. If it is necessary to work in a voice, then it generally becomes impossible.
3. A long cough in most cases causes shortness of breath, so physical activity decreases, which leads to other diseases in the body.
4. Strong attacks can provoke a hemorrhage in the brain. Due to the fact that the patient constantly strains muscles, vessels in the head and body, the vessels of the brain lose the ability to work correctly.
5. May cause inguinal and umbilical hernias.

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Despite the fact that cough at first glance seems a non-serious disease, it can cause complications and a bunch of problems. Therefore, only timely treatment and diagnosis can return the body to a normal life without an unpleasant symptom.

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Cough without fever

Some symptoms of colds run without temperature and, therefore, sometimes do not cause much concern. In fact, they are very dangerous. For example, a prolonged cough without fever and cold suggests that there is a latent infection in the body. This symptom is extremely serious. Let's take a closer look at the causes of this phenomenon and how to get rid of it.

Causes of Cough without Temperature

If a person coughs for a long time, but does not have temperature, a cold or sneezing, this can be a sign of such problems in the body:

1. Hidden inflammation or allergic reaction. This cough in the throat is accompanied by a runny nose and sneezing, but the temperature of 37 does not rise higher.
2. Heart failure.
3. Venereal disease. With this pathology, a constant cough accompanied by skin irritation, a rash, and the temperature does not increase.
4. Pneumonia or ARVI.

Sometimes people cough not because of a cold, but because of the pollution of the environment. Often this symptom, along with a runny nose, is observed in people working at a mine, metal processing plant or chemical plant. Very often, without a runny nose and temperature, smokers cough for a long time. In people with allergies, this condition can be caused by feather pillows, in which mites are found. To understand how to be treated for a prolonged cough without a cold and fever, determine whether it is dry or wet.

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The main causes that can cause a dry cough (sometimes with wheezing) without fever and cold are:

1. Allergy to external irritants. The body tries to release the respiratory system from irritating particles, for example, dust, animal hair, household chemicals.
2. Ecology. If you live in an environmentally unfavorable place for a long time, then barking cough with a runny nose without temperature can be caused by environmental pollution. Long-term smoking exacerbates the situation. All this sometimes leads to chronic diseases of the respiratory system.
3. Heart problems. In this situation, the condition worsens when lying down. Sometimes it becomes difficult to breathe because of this.
4. Papillomatosis of the larynx. The larynx is covered with papillomas. Another patient feels uncomfortable in the throat, but there is no fever or runny nose, like with a cold.

Wet

The reasons for this cough (in the absence of fever and cold) can be the following problems:

1. Bronchitis, tracheitis, other similar diseases. As a rule, this symptom is a residual phenomenon of the inflammations, the maximum duration of which is a month.
2. False groats. With this diagnosis, a person has a very strong cough without a runny nose and fever with painful bouts. The sputum practically does not clear the throat.
3. Tuberculosis. A dangerous disease, which often does not show any other symptoms. Coryza and cough with phlegm containing blood.
4. Cold. In ARVI, a person suffers from a runny nose, even if the temperature remains normal.

Paroxysmal

Such a cough in the absence of a runny nose and temperature is very dangerous. Man, suffocating, his throat is very sore. This in no case can not be tolerated or treated at home. It is necessary urgently to address to the doctor who will define, by what symptom such such attacks are a symptom. If you sometimes cough up almost to vomiting, the reasons for this may be:

• bronchial asthma;
• whooping cough;
• ARVI;
• a tumor in the lungs or bronchi;
• pneumonia.

Night

A dry cough at night can be a sign of an allergy to natural pillow fillers. But he is also a symptom of other dangerous diseases. It is necessary to try to understand what other signs are observed, for example, a runny nose or sneezing. If you have snot with no temperature at night, you have snot, it's either a cold or an allergy. Often people cough at night because of the wrong structure of the skeleton or internal organs, or inflammation of the nerve endings.

Protracted

If there is no chill during prolonged cough, this does not mean that there is no danger. Constant coughing may indicate that the body for some reason does not respond to the virus with high temperature. If this lasts a very long time, you need to undergo a medical examination. The reasons for this condition can be:

• heart diseases;
• tuberculosis;
• allergy;
• pneumonia;
• ARVI;
• complex form of bronchitis.

How to cure a cough

To cure a prolonged cough without fever, it is recommended to use medicines and folk recipes. If you prefer the first option, first visit the doctor so that he can determine the cause of the problem and prescribe the prescription for the appropriate medication. If it's a cold without temperature, then the tablets that dilute sputum will help. These include Mukaltin, Ambrobene, Brommgeksin. In more severe cases, antibiotics will be needed.

Wet cough at home is treated and folk medicine. Very effective will be a mixture of mashed cranberries and honey (in equal parts). It is also recommended to drink honey with lime blossom and birch buds in the proportion, glass. The mixture is boiled in a water bath for a quarter of an hour, filtered and drunk three times a day on a small spoon. If you do not know how to stop a cough and how to treat this condition, rub your chest with badger fat, which has an anti-inflammatory effect. Be sure to drink plenty of warm liquid. Different approaches are used to treat cough in children and adults.

In adults

To cure a strong prolonged cough in an adult, you need to determine the cause of the symptom and eliminate it. Dry cough at night is treated with antitussive drugs so that a person can normally rest. If it is associated with an infection of the upper respiratory tract, then you will need to drink pills for colds. The most important thing is to understand what to take to turn a permanent dry cough into a wet one. To do this, prescribe drugs that stimulate expectoration:

1. Reflex. Drugs that drink with a prolonged cold. They affect the areas of the brain responsible for the cough reflex. The most common example is the leaves of mother-and-stepmother, plantain. Of the drugs - Codeine.
2. Resorptive. Preparations that dilute sputum. Thanks to them, the lungs are intensively cleaned. Often, such medications are used for inhalations. Examples: ATSTS, Amtersol, Ascoril.
3. Proteolytic. Make sputum less viscous. They include Gelomirtol, the herb of thyme.
4. Mukoregulators. Tablets for increased production of phlegm, used to treat colds in most cases. For example, Ambroxol, Bromhexine.

Children

A cough in a baby without temperature is normal, if the child is not naughty and sleeps well, behaves very actively, does not complain about a stuffed nose or weakness. But if barking, dry or wet cough does not pass, then you should consult a doctor. Pain when coughing and frequent long bouts, which sometimes lead to vomiting and do not give the baby in 3 years of sleep, talk about the presence of serious diseases in the body.

To treat a prolonged cough without fever, the child is prescribed:

• remedies that soothe spasms (Dzhoset, Ascoril, Kashnol);
• drugs for liquefaction of sputum (syrup Thyme, ACC, Bromhexine);
• expectorants (Stopoutsin, Bronchicum, Plantain syrup).

If your child has a dry allergic cough without a cold, the treatment should be comprehensive. In this situation, you need to drink antitussive drugs and visit an allergist who will identify the allergen and eliminate it. This can be household dust, pet hair. The specialist will write antihistamines (antiallergic), tell you what to drink for general strengthening therapy and improve immunity.

Video: Komarovsky on cough treatment in a child

Watch a video in which the famous children's doctor Eugene Komarovsky tells in detail how to treat a bad cough without a runny nose in an infant. Doctor's advice will help you understand why a cough occurs, what you need to do, so that the ailment quickly passes. Having looked at the video below, you will stop considering the cough something frightening and incomprehensible, and when it appears you can take correct steps without delay.

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What can cause a violent cough without fever?

A prolonged severe cough without fever is common enough. Many do not attach importance to easy coughing and do not seek medical help. Someone completely ignores the unpleasant phenomenon, believing that it will disappear by itself with time. Others are trying to cure malaise with folk remedies against coughing or buying medicines on the advice of acquaintances.

Self-medication, like ignoring the disease, can be dangerous to health, because a constant cough can be a sign of a serious illness. Improperly selected medications can worsen a patient's condition. Non-cured diseases often become chronic or provoke the development of other pathologies.

What is a cough

Coughing is a reflex reaction of the body to various stimuli in the organs of the respiratory system. It performs a protective and purifying function. With its help, the body is released from foreign bodies that get into the respiratory tract, as well as from substances that irritate the respiratory system. Cough reflex helps to get rid of pathogens and the products of infection control with the body's defenses. Thanks to this reaction, the body maintains optimal conditions for the healthy life of the respiratory system. Therefore, the treatment of many types of cough is aimed at its effectiveness, not suppression.

But coughing can have a nervous nature. It occurs due to diseases of the human nervous system, and not as a result of external effects on the respiratory system.

Cough is of two kinds: dry and wet. If the mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are dry and hot, then the cough reflex will be dry. He does not bring relief. Often, it irritates the mucous membranes and can be painful and unpleasant.

A wet cough occurs when the reflex reaction is accompanied by a sputum discharge. He usually brings relief, but in some cases a wet cough can be very deep. Coughing becomes harder. Sometimes there is a feeling of lack of air.

If the inflammation of the respiratory system is caused by infection, a cough reflex may appear against the background of an increase in body temperature. However, it often appears non-heat.

There are several reasons for the occurrence of a cough without temperature.

Cough without fever on the background of an infectious disease

Inflammatory process, caused by various types of pathogens, can occur without an increase in body temperature.Such a course of an infectious disease can be caused by a reduced immunity of the sick person. In such cases, a deep cough can be observed. Weak resistance of the body allows infection to penetrate into the upper respiratory tract, into the bronchi and further into the lungs. A person with healthy immunity would have a high body temperature in this condition. But a weak immune response makes a person vulnerable to disease. If the disease is not treated, then the patient's condition will rapidly deteriorate.

Strong immunity can effectively fight infection at the stage of infection. The infected person shows signs of a disease (for example, cough and runny nose), but the body temperature does not increase. If you ignore such a state, then the immune forces may not be enough to successfully overcome the infection. If you lead a normal lifestyle and load the body with the usual daily loads, the infection will be able to cause an inflammatory process. In addition, a bacterial infection may be added to the viral infection.

A prolonged cough without fever can be a consequence of a viral disease that has been transferred, when an acute inflammatory process has passed into a chronic condition. Dry, irritating the mucous membrane of the throat, cough is characteristic of chronic atrophic pharyngitis. Cough reflex with sputum may be a sign of chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis.

After suffering an acute respiratory viral disease, coughing can be observed for a while as a residual phenomenon.

A prolonged dry cough without a rise or with a slight increase in temperature can be a sign of the defeat of the body by a tuberculous infection. This symptom is characteristic for tubercular bronchoadenitis and the initial stage of focal pulmonary tuberculosis.

Allergic nature

Cough without fever occurs with various allergic diseases.

Cough reflex can appear due to the ingress of substances - allergens - onto the mucous membrane of the respiratory organs. For example, pollen from plants, spores of fungi or poplar fluff. Such a cough is usually dry and shallow. It can be observed as a slight cough, and attacks of an uncontrollable cough, during which the patient suffocates. For an allergic cough, the symptoms disappear after the removal of the irritant substance. It instantly disappears or becomes less obvious after taking antihistamines.

Asthma as one of the reasons

Asthma is a chronic lung disease, which causes inflammation and swelling of the airways. Asthmatics suffer from coughing attacks, especially at night. During an attack there is a hoarse or labored breathing, mucus is formed. A cough attack can trigger a physical load, a pungent smell or cold air. Aggravation of the disease also causes various substances - allergens. Before the attack, the patient may feel itching in the chin, chest or neck. In the development of the disease, heredity, as well as occupational and environmental factors play an important role. Recent studies have confirmed the impact of household chemicals on the development of this disease.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a disease in which an irreversible airflow restriction occurs in the respiratory tract. There is no increase in body temperature. This condition progresses steadily and is accompanied by an inflammatory response of the lungs. The disease appears due to the constant exposure of irritants to respiratory organs of pathogenic particles or gases. In response to the stimulus in the lungs, the number of cells that produce a mucous secret is intensively increased. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often suffers from smokers with a long history - more than forty-five years. Therefore, this ailment is often called a smoker's illness. They have too much sputum, which can go unnoticed, as tobacco smoke paralyzes the cilia of the bronchi that help to move the sputum. Therefore, heavy smokers often deafeningly cough in the morning with the release of sputum. But after the first puffs, the cough reflex ceases. If a smoker can not live without a morning cigarette, this is a sign of the development of pathology in his respiratory system.

Over time, a more severe condition develops, in which the patient can not exhale air from the lungs due to the narrowing of the lumen of the bronchi.

Cough as a side effect

A non-temperature cough may occur as a result of prolonged use of medications for treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system and hypertension - ACE inhibitors (angiotensin-converting enzyme). The side effect of such therapy can be a cough reflex. About a fifth of patients who take such drugs develop a dry cough.

Long-term administration of drops to treat the common cold can provoke a cough reflex. In this case, usually observed catarrhal phenomena - a slight reddening of the throat and a sensation of tickling in the throat.

Other reasons

Gastroesophageal reflux disease can be accompanied by a cough without temperature. This disease of the esophagus and stomach, in which gastric acid enters the esophagus due to the weakness of the valve. Together with heartburn, coughing, wheezing, and chest pain may occur.

Contaminated air causes coughing attacks. Thus, the body tries to get rid of foreign particles that are in the air.

Long exposure to vapors and gases can lead to sputum and irritation of the lungs. The same effect can cause mold spores. Contaminated air often provokes allergic reactions or an attack of asthma.

Neurogenic cough occurs against the background of a nervous system. Usually it is a dry, sonorous cough reflex, intensifying in stressful situations. In a calm state and during sleep, he usually does not bother the person.

Oncological diseases

Chronic cough without fever is often a sign of the development of a malignant tumor in the respiratory system. Cough of the oncological nature has its own characteristics, although it is very similar to the usual cough reflex. It is characterized by great intensity and gradually changes its character. In the first stages of the disease, coughing is usually dry and painful. In the course of time, sputum appears. At first it is simply mucous, then purulent-mucous. In late stages, sputum is purulent-mucous. The oncological cough reflex does not respond to standard therapy. Call it can malignant tumors that have arisen in different tissues of the respiratory system.

Treatment of cough

If a cough without fever has recently appeared and is accompanied by a runny nose, it may be the result of the action of viruses. In this case, you must comply with bed rest. It is not recommended to visit the team in order not to spread the infection and not to burden the body in addition. An easy disease will pass by itself or with the help of folk remedies - tea with kalina, radish juice and herbal remedies. If the cough does not disappear more than two weeks, you need to visit a doctor. It is especially dangerous to ignore the best-temperature cough in children. The development of diseases in children is rapid.

A long-term, non-vanishing cough reflex, not accompanied by fever, is an alarming sign. Especially if a strong cough is accompanied by a discharge of sputum with blood veins and pain. To delay with a visit to the doctor is strictly not recommended.

Before you start cough treatment, you need to find out the reason for its appearance. Many diseases have similar symptoms, but they have completely different nature. A diagnosis error can have fatal consequences.

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Only a doctor can determine the causes of any cough. He will examine the patient and will assign a series of studies. Probably, it is required to make a roentgen of lungs. Depending on the results of the research, the doctor will diagnose and prescribe the treatment.

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