Cough is the mechanism of the body to clear out the airways and the breathing passages from the unwanted substances but when it becomes a habit or remain for a long span of time it can be a indication of the another disease like pneumonia. Normally cough is of two types productive and the dry cough, in dry cough we don’t get mucus while in productive cough we do. Cough is also divided in the three types according to the time it spent in the human body like acute, sub acute and the chronic one.

What are the common causes of the cough?

1)      Flu and the cold: a very common cause and it’s natural too. People worldwide generally gets this once a year but its not a disease to worry much about.

2)      Allergy and asthma: Asthma is also a well known disease but an irritating one. Allergies coughing is also sometimes comes along with the allergic asthma.

3)      Air pollution: It is nothing but the human made monster, which is eating the humans only. Air pollution now a day’s one of the major cause of the cough these days.

4)      Pneumonia: One of the main symptoms of the pneumonia is cough. Speaking more accurately its prolonged cough.

When to consult a doctor?

In many cases its crucial to know when to consult the doctor for the treatment and many people miss it and have to bear the consequences, following are the few symptoms when it says to consult the doc as soon as possible;

a)      Short of the breath: when you suffer from any short of breath consult the doctor.

b)      Throat with difficult for swallowing: In this case always consult a medical professional.

Cough is not a bad disease always; you just need to know how to take it seriously.

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