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Cough and Heart Fluttering Coughing is a reflex that keeps your throat and airways clear. Although it can be annoying, coughing helps your body heal or protect itself. Coughs can be either acute or chronic. Acute coughs begin suddenly and usually last no more than 2 to 3 weeks. Acute coughs are the kind you most often get with a cold, flu, or acute bronchitis. Chronic coughs last longer than 2 to 3 weeks. Causes of chronic cough include.
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- Cough: productive or 'wet' cough. A productive (‘wet’ or chesty) cough is when you have a cough that produces mucus or phlegm (sputum). You may feel congested and have a ‘rattly’ or ‘tight’ chest. Symptoms are often worse when waking up from sleep and when talking. The wet cough may be the last symptom left after a common cold infection.
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acute disease acute disease, a disease characterized by a relatively sudden onset of symptoms that are usually severe. An episode of acute disease results in recovery to a state comparable to the patient's condition of health and activity before the disease, in passage into a chronic phase, or in death. Examples are pneumonia and appendicitis. See also chronic disease. (1) Any illness that develops quickly, is intense or severe and lasts a relatively short period of time. (2) Any condition—e.g., infection, trauma, fracture—with a short (often less than 1 month) clinical course. Acute illnesses usually respond to therapy; a return to a state of complete—pre-morbid—health is the norm.
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Acute bronchitis Acute bronchitis, also known as a chest cold, is short-term inflammation of the bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) of the lungs. The most common symptom is a cough. Other symptoms include coughing up mucus, wheezing, shortness of breath, fever, and chest discomfort. The infection may last from a few to ten days. The cough may persist for several weeks afterwards with the total duration of symptoms usually around three weeks. Some have symptoms for up to six weeks.
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- Acute bronchitis often occurs with a viral infection, such as the common cold, and is sometimes called a chest cold. The most common symptom of acute bronchitis is a nagging cough, which usually subsides within two to three weeks, although a lingering cough can persist for several weeks after the acute bronchitis has improved.
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- Acute bronchitis, also known as a chest cold, is short term inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs. The most common symptom is a cough. Other symptoms include coughing up mucus, wheezing, shortness of breath, fever, and chest discomfort.
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What is an Acute Illness? An acute illness is an illness that onsets very rapidly and is of short duration. A classic example is the so-called stomach flu. While acute conditions may not last long, they can be very dangerous and in some cases are deadly.
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Acute Bronchitis Acute bronchitis describes an infection and inflammation of the breathing tubes leading to cough and occasional wheezing. Treatment is supportive keeping fever under control and the patient well hydrated. Wheezing is often treated with inhaled albuterol, either by puffer (HFA) or nebulizer.
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Acute bronchitis Acute bronchitis, also known as a chest cold, is short-term inflammation of the bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) of the lungs.[2][1] The most common symptom is a cough.[1] Other symptoms include coughing up mucus, wheezing, shortness of breath, fever, and chest discomfort.
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- A dry cough is a non-productive cough caused by irritation or inflammation in the throat and chest.
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acute 1. Referring to a disease of sudden onset and brief course, not chronic, sometimes loosely used to mean severe. 2. Referring to treatment or exposure: brief, intense, short-term; sometimes specifically referring to brief exposure of high intensity.
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Cough Acute and Subacute Cough. The most common cause of acute cough, as defined by a time course of less than 3 weeks, is considered to be the common cold. Although there are no case series addressing the frequency of the common cold as a cause of acute cough, epidemiologic data support the relation.
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Cough (Redirected from Hacking cough) A cough is a sudden and often repetitively occurring, protective reflex, which helps to clear the large breathing passages from fluids, irritants, foreign particles and microbes.
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Definition By Mayo Clinic Staff. A cough is your body's way of responding when something irritates your throat or airways. An irritant stimulates nerves that send a message to your brain. The brain then tells muscles in your chest and abdomen to push air out of your lungs to force out the irritant. An occasional cough is normal and healthy.
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What is Bronchitis? Acute bronchitis is a form of the illness that starts suddenly and resolves itself after just a few weeks. Symptoms of acute bronchitis include hacking cough and production of mucus (phlegm). It is usually brought on by a viral (90%) or bacterial illness in the upper respiratory tract.
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Acute Respiratory Infection Acute respiratory infection is an infection that may interfere with normal breathing. It can affect just your upper respiratory system, which starts at your sinuses and ends at your vocal chords. It can also affect just your lower respiratory system, which starts at your vocal chords and ends at your lungs. This infection is particularly dangerous for children, older adults, and people with immune system disorders.
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Cough The most common cause of an acute or subacute cough is a viral respiratory tract infection. In adults with a chronic cough, i.e. a cough longer than 8 weeks, more than 90% of cases are due to post-nasal drip, asthma, eosinophilic bronchitis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.ost of the time, irregular coughing is caused by a respiratory tract infection but can also be triggered by choking, smoking, air pollution, asthma, gastroesophageal reflux disease, post-nasal drip, chronic bronchitis, lung tumors, heart failure and medications such as ACE inhibitors.
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- Definition. A cough is your body's way of responding to irritants in your throat and airways. An irritant stimulates nerves there to send a cough impulse to your brain. The brain signals the muscles of your abdomen and chest wall to give a strong push of air to your lungs to try to expel the irritant. An occasional cough is normal and healthy.
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- Cough Basics. A cough is a common reflex action that clears the throat of mucus or foreign irritants. Coughing to clear the throat is typically an infrequent action, although there are a number of conditions that can cause more frequent bouts of coughing. In general, a cough that lasts for less than three weeks is an acute cough.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Hypersecretory disorder - presence of a productive (sputum) cough on most days, for at least 3 months of 2 successive years - in patients when other causes of chronic cough have been excluded.