Diseases to be wary of with a cough include respiratory infections, foreign bodies in the respiratory tract, respiratory tumors, and cardiogenic diseases.
1. Respiratory tract infection. Including acute bronchitis, lobar pneumonia onset of cough, often accompanied by fever, coughing up sputum and other symptoms.
2. Respiratory foreign body. When a foreign body enters the airway, there will be irritating cough, and in severe cases, there will be chest tightness and shortness of breath.
3. Respiratory tract tumor. For example, central lung cancer and peripheral lung cancer, etc., patients may have cough, hemoptysis and other symptoms.
4. Cardiogenic diseases. For example, when left heart insufficiency occurs, patients may have cough, sputum, dyspnea and other symptoms.
There are many other causes of cough, such as cough variant asthma, postnasal drip syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux stimulation, etc., should be timely to the hospital, clear cause of the symptomatic treatment, to avoid blindly use their own medication.