Cough
DDx
Acute
- URI (rhinitis, sinusitis, pertussis)
- LRI (bronchitis, PNA)
- Allergy
- Asthma
- Environmental irritants
- Transient airway hyperresponsiveness
- Foreign body
Chronic
- Postinfectious; pertussis
- Smoking and/or chronic bronchitis
- Postnasal discharge
- Asthma
- GERD
- ACEI/ARB
- CHF
- Lung cancer or intrathoracic mass
- Emphysema
- Interstitial lung disease
- Psychiatric
Source
Tintinalli