How to distinguish coughing diseases
Humans may cough or reflex. When coughing, respiratory muscles are mobilized to the maximum, causing the pressure in the chest and respiratory tract to increase to the highest. Pressure increases between the air and the outside air with the opening and closing of the eyeball, causing the speed of the air to expel as fast as the speed of sound, enough force to take the object out.
There are many causes of coughing: coughs due to respiratory illnesses, but also coughs due to disease outside the respiratory tract. The distinction between cough and disease is very important to help the patient and his family have a corrective attitude in time. Different coughing conditions can be distinguished from the cough and associated symptoms as follows:
Sore throat: cough or dry cough, may have high fever but also without fever. Swallowing, feeling throat irritation. Seeing red, seeded, or pus; tonsillitis can be swollen.
Laryngoma: usually a dry cough; hoarse voice or lost voice. If you have diarrhea, the coughing diarrhea. Patients in severe poisoning. Sore throat shows white membranes in the throat, causing difficulty breathing, sometimes to open the trachea to breathe.
Bronchiectasis, acute bronchitis, early stage cough, sputum, thinning or thinning, white or yellow, with high fever, if detected early and early treatment will soon.
Chronic bronchitis: Common in smokers. Cough has many phlegm, coughing about 3 months, took place in 2 years. The disease or recurrence due to multiple outbreaks or exposure to inflammatory agents such as cold winter air, high humidity, inhalation of toxic gas, dust ...
Bronchiectasis: cough in the morning, there is a lot of sputum, if the sputum into the cup, deposited into 3 layers, the bottom is pus, the middle is mucus, the top layer is foam and fluid. Bronchiectasis can cough up blood; or recurrence due to multiple infections.
Bronchial asthma: met in young and middle age. The disease is: fever; shortness of breath, or asthma at night, while breathing difficulty to see the whistling. After each asthma, the patient has cough and spit out many white, diluted sputum. Multiple or multiple recurrent infections; In case of multiple infections, the phlegm is yellow.
Whooping cough: common in young children, fever. The cough attacks, the coughing end of the coughing hiss of the cock crows. Many coughs can cause cracking of the alveoli, causing pneumothorax.
Cough due to respiratory foreign object: right after the foreign body, coughing, coughing, breathing, hissing as if dying. If the object is deep and stable, cough, difficulty breathing. In case of foreign body causing inflammation, cough or bloody spit, persistent cough, high fever, chest pain.
Pneumonia: Patients with high fever, chills, chest pain, coughing sputum, sticky, rusty color. The test showed leucemia in the blood increased. X-ray of the lungs with pneumonia.
Pulmonary tuberculosis: persistent cough, sputum production, sometimes blood or cough fresh blood. Patients often fever in the afternoon, thin people, weight loss, anorexia. Sputum examination finds TB bacteria in the sputum.
Lung abscess: Patients with high fever, chest pain, dry cough or sputum. If the abscess rupture into the bronchus, coughing up phlegm, fishy or very rotten.
Bronchial cancer: common in older people, smokers, tobacco. Patients with shortness of weight, poor diet, chest pain, coughing blood. Because there are multiple tumors, which cause shortness of breath, pulmonary edema. X-ray, chest scan to determine the disease.
Cough due to cardiovascular diseases: pulmonary hypertension, congestive lung disease, congestive heart disease, heart failure, heart failure, dry heart disease or fluid.
Cough due to liver abscess: abscesses cause pleural inflammation of the lungs, stimulates pleural effusion.
