The first thing you need to do is to go to the hospital for an examination to find the real cause of coughing, actively treat the primary disease, and also take cough suppressant medicines to treat the symptoms.
1. active treatment of primary disease: if the phenomenon of tuberculosis caused by coughing can not stop, can follow the doctor’s instructions to take isoniazid, rifampicin and other drugs; if asthma caused by coughing, can follow the doctor’s instructions to inhalation of salbutamol or glucocorticoid treatment; if the gastro-esophageal reflux disease caused by persistent coughing, can follow the doctor’s instructions to take omeprazole and other drugs targeting the treatment.
2. Cough suppressants symptomatic treatment: can be under the guidance of a professional doctor, taking central cough suppressants, such as Benadryl, Pentoxyverine, etc.; or peripheral cough suppressants, such as phenprocoumon, etc. to relieve cough symptoms.
As you can see, if you have a cough that won’t stop, you must go to the hospital to find out the cause of the cough and get treatment under the doctor’s guidance.