If you are suffering from common cold or flu, and bouts of cough are causing you pain and soreness of throat or resulting in other health complications, you need to visit a doctor immediately.
The body’s defence mechanism causes coughs to clear the passage of air in the throat which prevents appropriate flow of air to the lungs. They not just happen because of physical problems and ailments but also can be caused due to psychological complications. The former is caused when the cough results from external irritants like dust, cigarette smoke, environmental pollutants etc or because of some ailment. As for the coughing triggered by psychological reasons, it is generally a habitual problem known as Streruphilia, which is totally mental and not caused because of any physical disorders.
Cough can many times be acute or chronic, based on its typical nature and on the basis of the period for which it lasts and its intensity. Acute coughing problems which go on for not more than 3 weeks at a stretch can be caused because of both infectious and non-infectious diseases. Examples of ailments of one time nature that cause painful coughing are sinus infections and pneumonia and examples of complications triggering chronic coughs are asthma and bronchitis.
It is important that you visit a doctor and get the root cause and severity of your cough diagnosed so that appropriate treatment can be done. Based on the underlying root cause, doctors can prescribe many types of medications such as antihistamines, antibiotics or other cough suppressants. However, chronic coughs might require the sufferer to undergo long duration therapies, that can go on for months until the problem is cured.
As with any other ailment, prevention of cough is always better than having to deal with it later when you become badly affected by it. A healthy lifestyle can protect you from cough related problems and for that you must give up smoking and take a proper, balanced diet.
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