Don't expect to cough because of colds

Many people are used to saying 'cough disease' but actually coughing is not a disease but a manifestation of many diseases.

The same cause of coughing can be caused by various diseases such as common cold, bronchitis, acute pneumonia or chronic pneumonia. Because each type of disease will have a different treatment direction, the confusion is not only effective but also makes the disease longer and causes complications.

Distinguish cough from colds and bronchitis

So how to distinguish common cold and bronchitis when they share the same symptoms as prolonged cough, fever, chills, headache? First of all, from a root cause, the common cold is a disease caused by an upper respiratory infection such as rhinitis and sore throat that is often caused by a virus. The disease occurs after changing the body temperature as if it is hot to cold after a bath.

The disease often manifests as nasal discharge, nasal congestion, sneezing, throat irritation, sore throat, lacrimation, cough, headache, body aches, fatigue, mild fever and poor eating. The disease lasts only 5-7 days but weakens the body's resistance. People with a lot of cough often have sputum, dilute sputum, white and easily spit. The person coughs more often at night and when the weather is warmer, the cough is less.

And bronchitis, which causes coughing, is caused by viruses, bacteria that cause inflammation of the air duct system of the lungs.

Therefore, the common cold will go away within 5-7 days of treatment but with bronchitis, the disease will last longer.

Persistent coughing, coughing with bouts, coughing and coughing, agonizing because coughing is a symptom that is easy to encounter in the environment of polluted environment, wet weather.

Cough caused by acute and chronic pneumonia

All acute and chronic pneumonia are pathological conditions of the lungs. However, with acute pneumonia, the patient has a lot of cough, yellow sputum, high fever, severe chest pain and increased pain when coughing and deep breathing.

As for chronic pneumonia, the disease progresses slowly, especially chronic pneumonia often occurs in people with upper respiratory diseases such as pharyngitis, recurrent tonsillitis and other differences in Chronic pneumonia is a patient without fever .

The warning signs of coughing were dangerous

If coughing lasts more than three weeks, drug therapy is not reduced, accompanied by fever, cough with green sputum, rusty brown, yellow, coughing up blood, shallow breathing or chest pain when coughing may be signs of some diseases dangerous reason .

For patients with a history of asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, increased blood pressure, stomach pain, a lot of weight loss, a doctor should seek a cause for root treatment such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, congestive heart failure, inflammation. lungs, tuberculosis, sore throat, tonsillitis, lung cancer .