What is Cough ?

1. What Is Cough ? By : Anti Cough

2. What is cough ? • Cough is the body's defense mechanism that occurs in the respiratory tract and is a disease or irritation in the throat which occurs due to the presence of mucus, dust, smoke, food and so on.

3. What cause cough ? • Cough caused due to certain stimuli, such as dust in the receptor cough (respiratory tract, nose, ears and even). These receptors will then transmit a signal through nerves to the cough center in the brain. Then the brain will send signals to the muscles of the body to remove foreign objects that came in, until there was a cough.

4. What types of cough ? • Cough can be divided into two types:  acute cough and chronic cough, the cough is grouped by time.

5. Acute cough • Acute cough is a cough that lasts less than 14 days, and also in one episode. If the cough lasts more than 14 days, or occurs in the third episode for 3 consecutive months, the cough is called a chronic cough.

6. Chronic cough • Chronic cough that often strikes children are due to tuberculosis, asthma and pertussis (whooping cough / 100 days). Pertussis is a chronic cough caused by Bordetella pertussis bacteria. Pertussis can be prevented by immunization

7. Causes of cough • There are several kinds of causes of cough, such as: • cough due to respiratory tract infections are a symptom of the flu. • Acute respiratory infections (ARI). • Allergy • Asthma or tuberculosis • Foreign object enters the respiratory tract. • Choke. • Inhaling smoke from people around. • Psychogenic cough. Cough is often caused due to emotional and psychological problems.

8. Source : Anti Cough