Chronic pharyngitis includes chronic simple pharyngitis, chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis, dry pharyngitis and atrophic pharyngitis, all of which can cause symptoms of coughing, and are often treated with medication and surgery depending on the cause, with treatment results varying from person to person. Chronic pharyngitis is a diffuse inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa, submucosa and lymphoid tissue. Coughing may be due to inflammatory factor stimulation of the pharyngeal nerves or secretions flowing into the laryngotracheal tubes producing a choking response. Common therapeutic drugs include furacilin gargle, compound chlorhexidine gargle, compound borax gargle and other gargles, which are mainly used for anti-inflammatory treatment and maintaining oral hygiene and cleanliness. You can also use iodine throat tablets, watermelon cream throat lozenges, Dumiphene tablets and so on to relieve the symptoms. Surgical treatment mainly includes low temperature plasma or laser treatment, mainly through the excision and ablation of chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis manifested in the posterior wall of the pharynx mucosal hyperplasia and lymphoid follicular hyperplasia fusion plaque. If you are diagnosed with chronic pharyngitis causing cough, you should seek medical advice in a timely manner, according to the cause and symptoms, and standardize the use of medication and treatment under the guidance of your doctor.