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5 month cough no asthma/allergies (went to specialist) gets worse when talking, makes me dry heave when having a coughing fit. any ideas?

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Dr. Al Hegab answered

Specializes in Allergy and Immunology

Sounds like asthma: and cough spells could be precipitated by a multitude of triggers or co morbidities, such as chronic sinus infection , uppper respiratory tract chronic inflammation, airway hyper-responsiveness or GERD, so you need to see an allergist/immunologist, check aaaai.org or acaai.org for an allergist in your area, goodluck

Answered 1/28/2015

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