Question 1

what causes a dry persistent non productive nighttime cough?

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Cough: Hello, a cough is a reflex event that occurs after stimulation to the nerves of the airways. A specific night time cough could be due to a few possibilities . First would be a cough variant of asthma. Instead of the wheezing that commonly occurs with asthma, a person coughs instead. My other thought could be from a reflux condition that while you sleep, a small amount of gastric liquid reflexes up.

Question 2

my son always seems to have a cough. it's just an annoying dry niggly cough. what can the cause be?

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Cough: Chronic cough may be caused by post nasal drainage from allergic rhinitis or non-allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis or asthma

Question 3

whay causes a dry cough?

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Lots of things: Inflammation of the mucosa of an airway below the vocal cords without actual disruption of the epithelial layer that lines it.  Anything from a chest cold to acid stomach reflux while you sleep (this can be serious), to a popcorn hull that was forgotten to autoimmune disease to "coughing-type asthma" (which i have) to a lung cancer.  If it lasts more than two weeks -- physician office visit.

Question 4

what causes a dry cough?

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Possibilities...: Persistent chronic non-productive cough is usually due to bronchospasm (due to any cause), post-nasal drip, gerd or a combination of these diagnoses. An evaluation by a doctor is needed for diagnosis since these all have different treatments. If you smoke, smoking cessation is needed to decrease airway inflammation.

Question 5

what can be cause behind my persistent dry cough?

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Chronic cough: The possible etiologies of a persistent dry cough include bronchospasm, post-nasal drip, gerd or some combination of these etiologies. Since the treatment of each of these is completely different, it is important that you return to your doctor if a particular treatment doesn't lead to complete resolution of the cough. If even 1 etiology is untreated, the cough will persist.

Question 6

what can be the actual cause behind my persistent dry cough?

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Many things: There are many things that can cause a persistent dry cough some of which are serious problems.  Smoking can lead to a persistent cough so if you are smoking please stop now.  Allergies, dry air, infections, medications and heart problems are just some of the things that can cause this.  You should have this evaluated by a health care professional.

Question 7

what could be the real root cause behind my persistent dry cough?

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Asthma/other lung dz: Peristent dry cough has many possible causes- including atypical pneumonia, chronic rhintis with post nasal drip is possible- also  asthma or COPD which are  chronic lung conditions.  There are certain meds that can cause dry  cough - so if you are on BP meds - check and see if you are on something that causes   this.  Go see your dr for eval- may do cxr and pft to eval.

Question 8

can lisiniprel cause a dry hacking cough?  if so, what will help the cough?

Accepted Answer

Cough: It sure can as I am on it as well and have a dry cough!
i am getting off it to another med as this is the only way to control it. Can be very bothersome.

Question 9

hello dr's. i have a dry cough that has been going on for 6 months. i've had a bad cold in december. could this be the cause of my dry cough?

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Chronic cough: Probably not a Cold from December, but your cough is chronic and needs to be evaluated for the cause of it. See a Dr. and you may even need some testing including a C-Xray for a 6 month cough. best wishes.

Question 10

does hiv cause a dry cough?

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Nope: HPV infection itself does not cause cough. For example, cough rarely if ever is a sign of a newly acquired HPV infection. Many conditions resulting from immune deficiency due to HPV cause cough (and many other symptoms), but that's an issue only for longstanding HIV with severe immune deficiency. If you think you might have been exposed, get tested -- but symptoms almost never are helpful.

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