Cough

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DDx

Acute

  1. URI (rhinitis, sinusitis, pertussis)
  2. LRI (bronchitis, PNA)
  3. Allergy
  4. Asthma
  5. Environmental irritants
  6. Transient airway hyperresponsiveness
  7. Foreign body

Chronic

  1. Postinfectious; pertussis
  2. Smoking and/or chronic bronchitis
  3. Postnasal discharge
  4. Asthma
  5. GERD
  6. ACEI/ARB
  7. CHF
  8. Lung cancer or intrathoracic mass
  9. Emphysema
  10. Interstitial lung disease
  11. Psychiatric

Source

Tintinalli