Symptom
Cough
A forceful, often reflex, expiratory maneuver characterized by sudden, explosive expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis, serving as a protective mechanism to clear the airways.
Causes
Respiratory infections
Asthma
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Environmental irritants (dust, smoke)
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
Post-nasal drip
Medications (ACE inhibitors)
Tobacco smoking
Also known as: Tussis
Referencing diagnoses
- Achalasia
- Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
- Acute interstitial pneumonia
- Acute laryngitis
- Acute sinusitis
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Aortic stenosis
- Asthma
- Benign vocal cord lesion
- Candidiasis
- Chronic sinusitis
- Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation
- COPD
- COVID-19
- Croup
- Endocarditis
- Erythema multiforme
- Esophageal cancer
- Esophageal hiatal hernia
- Esophageal stricture
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Heart failure
- Inhalation injury
- Kawasaki disease
- Laryngopharyngeal reflux disease
- Leishmaniasis
- Liver abscess
- Lung cancer
- Mitral regurgitation
- Mitral stenosis
- Nasal polyps
- Osteosarcoma
- Pericarditis
- Pharyngitis
- Pleural effusion
- Pleural empyema
- Pleuritis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary edema
- Pulmonary embolism
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Rheumatic fever
- Sarcoidosis
- Schistosomiasis
- Sickle cell disease
- Sjogren syndrome
- Subglottic stenosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis
- Testicular cancer
- Toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Tuberculosis
- Vocal cord immobility
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Whipple's disease
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