Check out this article we found written by Dr. Christopher
Chang from the Fauenquier.com Where he explains to us why people suffer from
Chronic Dry Cough:
The Mystery Chronic
Cough (a.k.a. habit cough, tic cough, psychogenic cough, irritable larynx
syndrome)
There are patients with a mysterious chronic dry cough
(longer than 6 months) that seems to defy all explanation and resist all the
usual standard treatments. Some of these patients have coughed for more than
ten years resulting in frustration not only in terms of treatment, but
diagnosis. Often, patients are told their cough is due to reflux, allergy,
asthma, infection, aspiration, virus, etc and undergo numerous exams and
studies including pulmonary function tests, chest x-rays, reflux studies,
barium swallows, upper endoscopy, CT scans, MRI scans, etc. Even all
medications known to cause a cough as a side effect (ie, statins, ACE
Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers) are removed to no avail. More
often than not, all these medical studies come back normal. Furthermore,
proposed treatments with antibiotics, proton pump inhibitors, allergy
medications, cough suppressants, steroid inhalers, etc are not successful.
Surgery may even be performed which also fails to improve the cough.
Eventually, some are even told it’s all in their head (psychogenic cough, habit
cough, tic cough, etc) or idiopathic.
A typical patient
with the chronic cough is described as follows:
Started during or after recovering from a viral laryngitis
and/or upper respiratory infection
Dry cough
Cough occurs due to no perceivable reason…perhaps only a
tickle
Cough may occur several times an hour to even as often as
several times a minute. Must be distinguished from whooping cough (severe
attacks of a choking cough that lasts 1-2 minutes often with near vomiting and
appearance of suffocation. Watch Mayo Clinic video).
Cough does not seem to get better with time (months or even
years)
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