Dry cough

Cough – the difficult reflex act arising at irritation of receptors of a throat, trachea, large bronchial tubes and pleurae. At cough reduction of respiratory muscles provides powerful sharp emission of air.

On origins cough is divided on physiological and pathological. Physiological cough promotes removal of all foreign bodys from respiratory tracts. The main features of physiological cough are frequency and short duration. Various respiratory diseases are followed by pathological cough. Dry cough is called cough without department of a phlegm. This type of cough can arise at many diseases of respiratory tracts. Dry cough can be acute (no more than two weeks), long (from two to four weeks), subacute (from one to two months) and chronic (more than two months).

Reasons of dry cough

Cough – an important and informative indicator of trouble in an organism. Treat the most common causes of dry cough:

• hit of foreign bodys in respiratory tracts;
• Quincke's edema, asthma;
• side effect of some medicines;
• gastroesophageal reflux;
• nasopharyngeal drainage;
• lung collapse;
• pleurisy;
• heart failure;
• bronchospasm;
• aortic aneurysm;
• system lupus erythematosus;
• nasopharyngeal drainage;
• whooping cough;
• tracheitis, laryngitis, bronchitis;
• long experience of smoking;
• pneumonia;
• inhalation of the irritating chemicals.

Ringing cough testifies to viral diseases. Deaf dry cough – the first symptom of tuberculosis and tumor of lungs. Whooping cough can be followed by hysterical dry cough. During treatment dry cough usually becomes wet.

Injuries, obstructions of respiratory tracts, inflammations can be the cause of cough. This type of cough can be provoked by a croup, an empyema, tuberculosis, a disease of legionaries, whooping cough.

Pathological cough can be followed by disturbances of a chair, a bad smell from a mouth, causeless loss of kilograms, lack of appetite, bleeding of gums, a hoarse voice, emergence of an asthma, vomiting, nausea. Dry cough can be life-threatening the patient if it is followed by the complicated speech, frequent urinations, the complicated breath which is speeded up by pulse, hypostases of extremities.

Methods of treatment of dry cough

If dry cough does not pass very long, then it is necessary to establish the reasons of its emergence and to eliminate them. Treatment of dry cough can be carried out separately if its source is not found. At cough it is necessary to control surely moisture content of air indoors, to drink a lot of liquid during the day and to avoid contact with irritants (aerosols, caustic cleaners and evaporations). The tablet or mint candy will help to remove a fit of coughing.

The strategy of treatment of dry cough has to be directed to transferring it to a wet form. Medicines for cough happen non-narcotic and narcotic. Codeine belongs to drugs. Codeine is a part of many cough remedies. This substance makes impact on all brain, than and numerous side effects at its use speak. Dextromethorphan does not possess narcotic action. This substance reduces excitability of the tussive center. It does not cause drowsiness, dependence and an analgesia.

There are also dry cough medicines which are not suppressing a certain center of a brain, and blocking receptors in bronchial tubes. Syrup "Doctor Tays", "Ferveks", "Terpikond", "Codelac broncho" concern to them.

Antihistaminic drugs need to be used when allergic reaction was resulted by narrowing of a gleam of bronchial tubes.

For transfer of unproductive cough in wet it is reasonable to use mucolytic and expectorants. Mucolytic dry cough medicines reduce viscosity of a phlegm, liquefy it. Expectorants promote strengthening of mucous secretion of bronchial tubes (Atseltsistein, Ambroxol, AZZ).

Inhalations for dry cough

If dry cough does not pass after use of medicines, then alkaline inhalations considerably will help to facilitate a state. Department of a phlegm usually begins already after only five-six procedures of inhalation for dry cough. During inhalation alkali gets into airways and liquefies a phlegm, without damaging mucous at the same time and without causing allergic reaction.

The nebulizer – the device inhaler intended for holding a procedure of inhalation in house conditions. The nebulizer transfers the solution placed in it to finely divided substance. In this state any means very easily passes through a nasopharynx and gets into bronchial tubes.

Soda at interaction with water breaks up to water, alkali and carbon dioxide therefore it can be used with success for alkaline inhalations at cough. For this purpose in a glass of warm water it is necessary to dissolve three teaspoons of soda. The received solution should be placed in the nebulizer and to breathe no more than 8-15 minutes.

For inhalation for dry cough it is also possible to use Ambroxol solution. For this purpose previously it should be mixed with normal saline solution.

At cough it is very useful to breathe in couples of mineral water. Any mineral water should be poured in capacity and to allow to stand it about an hour that all carbon dioxide came out. It is recommended to breathe mineral water no more than three-four minutes.