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Allergic cough - how to recognize?
An allergic cough is similar in appearance to a cough that accompanies diseases of the respiratory system. To understand that your cough is caused by an allergic reaction, you need to observe the symptoms that accompany the cough reflex. With an allergic cough, there is no temperature, an allergic cough usually accompanies dry mouth, perspiration, nasal congestion (without a runny nose), sneezing and lacrimation may accompany.
Sometimes an allergic cough can accompany sinus headaches. This is due to an allergic reaction of the mucous membrane lining the nasal cavity and sinuses to the allergen.
Typically, an allergic cough begins in the presence of the allergen and stops when moving away from it.
Allergic cough occurs, as a rule, on external stimuli:
- dust,
- aerosols,
- pollen,
- foodstuffs containing an allergen,
- wool (not only for pets, but also for knitting threads),
- chemical fumes of building materials and materials for the repair of premises,
- smoke, contained in the form of impurities, gaseous substances invisible to the eye.
To establish which allergen a cough develops, the allergist and allergy tests will help. To get rid of an allergic cough, you need to distance yourself from the source of the allergen and maintain that distance, possibly for life. If an allergic cough is left untreated, it can develop into bronchial asthma, which is a much more difficult condition in the treatment options.
A temporary drug that can relieve an allergic cough is a desensitizing drug, the most convenient form of release of which is an aerosol.
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