Definition

Cough is one of the complaints that are often disclosed to the patient's doctor. Cough is actually a way that's important for our bodies to clean the throat and respiratory tract us. However, excessive coughing may mean that we have a disturbance or disease.

A dry cough, sometimes productive. Productive cough is a cough that cause sputum. Sputum also called sputum or reak.

Can be acute cough or chronicles.

• vulnerable acute usually arise unexpectedly. Often caused by colds, influenza, or infection sine (Sinusitis). Acute cough usually disappear after 2 to 3 weeks.

• vulnerable chronicles usually lasts more than 2 to 3 weeks.

General Causes

Besides infection of the respiratory tract (ISPA), such as influenza, which causes coughing up most often is:

• Allergy and asthma
• lung infection such as pneumonia or acute bronchitis.
• disease lungs obstruktif chronicles (PPOK) or bronchitis chronicles, ephysema
• Sinusitis that cause postnasal drip.
• bronkiektasis Diseases such as tuberculosis, tumors lungs.
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease (Gerd) this means liquids throat to the stomach back, people like sour or bitter hiccup.
• Smoking
• exposed to cigarette smoke (passive smoker)
• exposed to air pollutant
• medicine for high blood ACE Enzyme inhibitor class.
  

Care Home

Some tips to reduce cough:

• Candy candy or cough medicine can help in the spicy dry cough and titillate. Can not be given to children aged under 3 years because it can choke the breath clog roads.
• inhale steam to help warm, dry cough with a way to increase the humidity in the air.
• Drink more fluids can dilute phlegm in the throat so easily dibatukkan out.
  

Some cough medicines that can be bought without a prescription, among others, which contains:

• Guaifenesin (Cohistan Expectorant, Probat, Bisolvon Extra, Actifed Expectorant, etc.). Must remember is that if you drink medicines containing Guaifenesin is the need to drink more water.
• Dekongestan such as pseudoephedrine (Actifed, Actifed Expectorant, Disudrin, Clarinase, Rhinos SR, Triaminic, etc.). Medicines that contain pseudoephedrine can be used to stop a cold liquid (meler) and postnasal drip. Can not be used if there is disease or high blood for children under 6 years of age except on your doctor's prescription.
  

Although coughing can be symptoms that disrupt, but the cough is the way our body to heal itself. Some experts recently did not recommend the use of cough in some situations. You should consult with your doctor before trying the sold-free cough that contain dextromethorphan (Lovely Vicky 44, etc.).

Do not expect or ask the doctor to meresepkan antibiotics for viral infections such as colds or influenza. Antibiotics do not work against the virus. Antibiotics also does not accelerate the healing of cough caused by allergy.

If you contact your doctor

Immediately to the emergency department if:

• Nafas short or difficult breathing
• The swelling in the face and throat with difficulty swallowing
  

Coming soon to your doctor if:

• vulnerable great that arise unexpectedly.
• vulnerable accompanied by the sound of ringing high at the time of inhalation.
• vulnerable bleeding.
• fever (which can indicate the existence of a bacterial infection that requires antibiotics). sputum is thick, smelly, bewarna sulfur (acceptance of a bacterial infection).
• exposed to a TB sufferer.
• The decrease in body weight that is not expected or night sweat (that the infected TB).
• more vulnerable from 10 to 14 days.
• vulnerable to the baby aged less than 3 months.
  

What will you do doctor?

In an emergency patients will be treated first to stabilize the condition. After a stable condition, the doctor will ask you things about your cough. Questions may be asked by your doctor:

• Is the bloody cough (how many, how often, how long have been).
• Do berdahak cough? How dahaknya, whether thick and difficult dibatukkan?
• Do batuknya serious? Is batuknya dry?
• Do batuknya sound like barking?
• How pattern cough? What is the sudden emergence? Are the more severe end-added end of this? Whether hoop worsened in the night? Whether hoop began to rise during the morning?
• It is how long cough?
• Is the cough worsened if lie on one side?
• Does the periodic coughing accompanied by vomiting?
• Symptoms that accompany other cough? Is there shortness of breath, fever?
  

Then your doctor will perform physical examination, including checking the ear, nose, throat and your chest.

Maybe your doctor will ask for additional checks, such as:

• Photo chest X-rays.
• Analysis of sputum (if berdahak cough).
• Test function of lungs
• Scan lungs
• Bronkoskopi.
  

Prevention

• Do not smoke and do not close near-smoker.
• If you have a seasonal allergy earned in the room stays in the air during the allergens are many more. If possible, close windows and use the AC. Avoid fan interest that the air from the outdoors. And even after the change of clothes outside the room.
• If you have an allergy throughout the year, do not use kapok mattress and pillow, use cleaner air (water purifier) and do not foster pets, and avoid other fuse.