What to do if you can’t stop coughing

Possible causes of coughing include foreign body, infection, allergy, lung diseases such as tuberculosis, lung cancer, etc. Remove the foreign body, anti-infection, anti-allergy, and treat the original disease.
1. Foreign body: For example, if a foreign body enters the trachea or bronchial tube, coughing may occur, then we must go to the hospital in time and take out the foreign body with the help of the doctor, so as to avoid the negative consequences and relieve the coughing symptoms at the same time.
2. Infections: For example, respiratory infections can lead to coughing, sometimes accompanied by coughing up phlegm. If the cough is severe, it will not stop, and you should seek medical advice to clarify the cause. If it is a viral infection, give oseltamivir and other anti-viral; if it is a bacterial infection, give amoxicillin and other anti-infective; mycoplasma infection, give erythromycin and so on. But the use of drugs need to be under the guidance of a doctor.
3. Allergy: Inflammation in the airway due to allergy may also manifest as the above mentioned situation, and can use cetirizine, loratadine and other anti-allergy under doctor’s advice to identify the allergens in time and alleviate the problem essentially.
4. Other lung diseases: when the organism has tuberculosis, there will be coughing, then take isoniazid and other anti-tuberculosis; if there is lung cancer, there will be coughing and even coughing up blood, and actively remove the cancerous tissues through surgery; there is also coughing in cough variant asthma, and use of bronchodilators such as albuterol, etc., and the above treatments should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor.
All of the above treatments should be directed by a doctor. It is recommended to consult a doctor if you have a cough that does not stop.