If the dry cough without sputum at night is caused by cold air irritation, usually no medication is needed. If it is caused by cough variant asthma, upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases, according to the specific cause of the need to give targeted drug treatment.
1. Cold air stimulation: If the dry cough at night is due to the indoor temperature is too low, or a long time to open the air conditioning, because of the cold air stimulation leads to increased airway reactivity, there will be a dry cough at night without sputum, generally do not need to use drugs for treatment, improve the living environment after a period of time can be relieved.
2. Cough variant asthma: a special type of bronchial asthma, there will be a dry cough at night and in the morning, often need to use albuterol, tiotropium bromide, ipratropium bromide and other inhalation drugs, or oral prednisone acetate, methylprednisolone and other glucocorticoid drugs.
3. Upper respiratory tract infections: often lead to sore throat, dry cough and other symptoms, can be given dextromethorphan symptomatic cough suppression treatment.
4. Bronchitis: acute and chronic bronchitis can lead to dry cough at night without sputum symptoms, the patient should be under the guidance of the doctor oral pentoxyverine, dextromethorphan and other cough suppressants.
5. Pneumonia: mostly due to bacterial infection, according to the sensitivity test of the pathogenic bacteria to select sensitive antibiotics such as amoxicillin, clarithromycin, etc., can be given at the same time, dextromethorphan, phenylpropylphenidate and other drugs such as cough suppressant treatment.
If the dry cough at night without sputum to exclude the physiological factors, need to go to the hospital in time to improve the relevant laboratory tests to clarify the cause of the targeted treatment, the above drugs need to be standardized under the guidance of a professional physician and pharmacist, rational application.