The antihypertensive drugs that cause cough are angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors such as captopril, angiotensin II receptor antagonists such as chlosartan and sacubitril valsartan.
1. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors can lead to increased levels of bradykinin in the body, bradykinin can stimulate the throat to appear dry cough symptoms, this kind of drugs have the highest chance of dry cough, representative of the drug captopril.
2. Angiotensin II receptor antagonists lead to coughing mechanism and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors are similar, but the symptoms are relatively mild, rarely lead to serious cough; representative drugs are chlosartan, sakubutra valsartan.
Oral antihypertensive drug process should pay attention to the adverse effects of cough, the seriousness of the condition should be timely to the hospital, under the guidance of the physician to adjust the treatment program, not self-medication.