Dry cough without sputum especially at night severe medication options should be identified before treatment. Common causes include cough variant asthma, infectious diseases of the lungs, cardiac insufficiency and so on.
1. cough variant asthma: related to heredity, exposure to allergens and other factors, with dry cough at night and in the morning as the main manifestation, can be treated with albuterol aerosol, budesonide inhalation therapy or oral prednisone and other treatments.
2. Lung infectious disease: cough, sputum, fever and other symptoms often occur after lung infection, bacterial infection can take cefixime, etc.; mycoplasma infection can take azithromycin, etc., in addition to cough suppressant drugs such as dextromethorphan symptomatic treatment.
3. Cardiac insufficiency: myocardial damage caused by hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart overload, vagus nerve excitation at night, lying down when the return blood volume increases, can lead to cough aggravation, the need for active treatment of the primary disease, or can be taken to reduce the cardiac load of hydrochlorothiazide, furosemide and so on.
Dry cough without sputum, especially at night, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible, complete the examination, clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor for standardized treatment, the above drugs should not be taken on their own.