is the body's defense mechanisms in the respiratory tract and is a symptom of a disease or the body's reaction to irritation in your throat due to mucus, food, dust, smoke and so on. Coughing can be divided into two types namely acute cough and chronic cough, both stratified by time.
acute cough
is a cough that lasts less than 14 days, and in one episode. If the cough is more than 14 days, or occurs in three episodes during 3 months in a row, called a chronic cough or chronic cough repeatedly. Recurrent chronic cough that often strikes children are due to asthma, tuberculosis (TB), and pertussis (whooping cough / cough of 100 days).
Pertussis is a chronic cough caused by Bordetella pertussis bacteria. Pertussis can be prevented by immunization of DPT.
CAUSE COUGH
There are several causes of cough:
A. Generally caused by an infection in the upper respiratory tract which is a flu-like symptoms.
2. Upper respiratory infection (ARI).
3. allergy
4. Asthma or tuberculosis
5. Foreign objects into the airway
6. Choking from drinking milk
7. Breathing smoke from people around
8. Psychogenic cough. This cough is caused by a lot of emotional and psychological problems.
Some cough medicines can be bought without a prescription, including those containing:
*Guaifenesin (expectorant Cohistan, Probat, Bisolvon Extra, Actifed expectorant, etc.). The thing to remember is if you take drugs containing Guaifenesin is to drink plenty of water.
*Decongestants such as pseudoephedrine (Actifed, Actifed expectorant, Disudrin, Clarinase, Rhinos SR, Triaminic, etc.). Medicines containing pseudoephedrine can be used to stop a cold liquid (runny) and postnasal drip.
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