What is an irritating dry cough? What is the nature of the cough?

Coughing is a protective respiratory reflex action of the human body to clear respiratory secretions or foreign objects. There are many reasons for coughing, and there are also many types of coughs. So what is an irritating dry cough?

Causes of irritating dry cough

Coughing is a protective respiratory reflex action of the human body to clear secretions or foreign objects in the respiratory tract. Although it has its advantages, severe and long-term coughing can lead to respiratory bleeding. Correctly distinguish between general coughs and cough variant asthma to prevent misdiagnosis. Cough treatment should be differentiated according to the type of cough. Both Western medicine and Chinese medicine can be used, but food therapy is the best. Pharyngitis cough is an irritating dry cough with no or little sputum. Older children may feel that there is something in the throat that they cannot spit out or swallow. The throat itches before coughing, and there is an obvious foreign body irritation, followed by paroxysmal coughing, which is more severe in the morning or before going to bed at night. The condition worsens with colds and colds. Usually, the throat often makes a "gnawing" sound or a single cough. During acute attacks, severe coughing causes nausea and vomiting, which is a reflex vomiting caused by stimulation of the pharyngeal nerve. Drinking water at this time will temporarily relieve the symptoms. There is no special treatment for chronic pharyngitis. Generally, Sterculia lychnophora, Polygonatum odoratum, Ophiopogon japonicus, Adenophora radix, Green fruit, and Jade Butterfly can be used. They can be soaked in water as tea, which has a certain therapeutic effect. In the acute stage, antibiotics should be used, and Chinese medicine should be taken, such as Coral Grass Lozenges, Watermelon Frost Lozenges, Jinshengzi Throat Treasures, Liushen Pills, etc., or children's pharyngeal flatulence tablets and Huang's Xiangsheng Pills can be taken orally, and combined with certain cough suppressant Western medicines, it can be cured or relieved. Pay attention to a light diet and avoid spicy and greasy foods.

Symptoms

1. Nature of cough

Coughing without sputum or with very little sputum is called a dry cough, which is common in acute pharyngitis and the early stages of acute bronchitis, pleurisy, mild tuberculosis, etc. Coughing with sputum is called a wet cough, which is common in pneumonia, chronic pharyngitis, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pulmonary abscesses, and cavitary tuberculosis.

2. The timing and rhythm of coughing

Sudden cough is mostly caused by acute upper respiratory tract inflammation (especially caused by inhalation of irritating gases) and foreign bodies in the trachea or bronchus. Long-term chronic cough is more common in chronic respiratory diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, chronic pulmonary abscess, cavitary tuberculosis, etc. Paroxysmal cough can be seen in cases of whooping cough, bronchial lymphadenopathy or cancer compressing the tracheal bifurcation. Patients with chronic bronchiectasis and pulmonary abscess often have a more severe cough when they get up in the morning or lie down at night (i.e. when changing body position), and then cough up sputum.

Coughing is a protective respiratory reflex. It is a physiological reflex caused by the impulse transmitted to the medullary cough center after the respiratory tract is stimulated (such as inflammation, foreign body). It can expel respiratory secretions or foreign bodies and protect the cleanliness and smoothness of the respiratory tract. Therefore, coughing is generally a beneficial action and is sometimes seen in healthy people. Under normal circumstances, for mild and infrequent coughs, as long as the sputum or foreign bodies are discharged, they can be relieved naturally without the use of cough medicine. However, for those severe dry coughs without sputum, or severe coughs with sputum but too frequent, not only will it increase the patient's pain, affect rest and sleep, increase physical exertion, and even promote the development of the disease and produce other complications. At this time, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Therefore, cough suppressants should be used appropriately to relieve cough.