Chronic cough is any cough that lasts for at least 4 weeks in children and 8 weeks in adults. If you can't stop coughing it could be due to asthma, post-COVID-19, GERD, COPD, and more. Once the ...

Coughing is enough of a nuisance when it doesn’t impact your sleep, so it’s arguably even more frustrating when you can’t figure out how to stop coughing at night (especially when it seems to worsen ...

As respiratory virus cases mount in the Chicago area, the number of people experiencing coughing spells may also rise. Coughing is among the symptoms that could appear with a number of respiratory ...

Unfortunately, the effects of viruses or bacteria can last long after the actual infection is gone. A chronic cough can be the most predicable aftermath of a cold or other viral infection, says Norman ...

There are a few reasons your cough may get worse at night when you're battling a virus. Shawn Nasseri, MD, an otorhinolaryngologist based in Beverly Hills, explained that when you lie down, mucus ...

Even the experts know that phlegm-y coughs are miserable. Case in point: When I called David Cennimo, MD, an infectious disease expert and assistant professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Stopping the spread of germs is top of mind these days – and covering a cough is a good place to start. Frank Esper, M.D., of Cleveland Clinic Children’s, said there’s a proper ...

"Coughing is a symptom rather than a diagnosis," says Philip Chen, MD, otolaryngologist at the the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. A 2013 study found the average cough lasts ...