There are many reasons for coughing in bed, such as cough variant asthma, gastroesophageal reflux disease, cardiac insufficiency and so on.
1. Cough variant asthma: a special type of asthma, mainly manifested as irritating dry cough, mostly at night and early morning episodes, without obvious wheezing, shortness of breath and other symptoms. It can cause sleep will cough.
2. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD): a chronic disease in which the contents of the stomach and duodenum reflux into the esophagus, resulting in a series of symptoms. When sleeping in a flat state, the acidic reflux material may reflux into the throat, irritating the throat and trachea, causing coughing, pharyngeal discomfort and other symptoms.
3. cardiac insufficiency: some patients with chronic cardiac insufficiency, lying down, venous return increases, will aggravate the situation of pulmonary stasis, sleep lying down cough, accompanied by dyspnea, coughing pink foamy sputum, the need for timely medical attention.
There are many other causes of coughing during sleep, which should be emphasized, and timely consultation should be made to identify the cause of the cough, and further treatment or therapy as prescribed by the doctor.