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| | Cough medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A cough medicine is a drug used to treat coughing and related conditions. | | | Although it is commonly believed that cough medicines must coat the throat to be effective, there is no evidence that it is possible to control coughing by this means. | | | An expectorant is a medicine or herb which increases the expulsion of tracheal or bronchial mucus through expectoration or coughing. |
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| | Cough |
| | Because cough is a symptom that is a common pathway for a variety of diverse conditions and because there are no reliable objective monitoring tools for cough, the management of cough is quite variable by physicians. | | | Cough is an important physiologic defense mechanism, a protective reflex to augment the mucociliary clearance of airway secretions. | | | The approach is usually "negotiated" with the patient, partly based on the level of subjective distress and the level of exasperation felt by the patient as well as the clinician. |
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http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/diseasemanagement/pulmonary/cough/cough.htm
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| | Cough |
| | Acupuncturists treat people with coughs based on an individualized evaluation of the excesses and deficiencies of qi (energy flow) located in various meridians as well as an assessment of the quality of food choices. | | | Coughs can be either acute (typically not lasting longer than two to three weeks) or chronic (lasting longer than two to three weeks). | | | In the case of most coughs, a qi deficiency is usually detected in the lung, spleen, and liver meridians. |
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http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsConditions/Coughcc.html
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 6, Ch. 63, Approach To The Pulmonary Patient |
| | As a rule, when cough alone is a major problem, using a full dose of a single drug aimed at a specific component of the cough reflex is preferred. | | | A cough can be distressing when it appears suddenly, especially if associated with discomfort due to chest pain, dyspnea, or copious secretions. | | | A patient who does not cough spontaneously should be asked to do so after the chest examination. |
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| | Coughs, Colds, and Runny Noses |
| | Coughs are your body's way of clearing dust and other obnoxious (in the strictest sense) things out of your windpipe and lungs. | | | If your cough and runny nose are due to allergies, antihistamines are one of the first things we would use to treat you. | | | Our cough reflex is not the only way we have to protect our airways. |
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| | Cough |
| | But first a warning: If your child's cough is persistent and accompanied by a fever, or has serious side effects (your child is coughing up blood, has chest pain or difficulty breathing, for example) call the doctor as soon as possible. | | | Aspiration (inhaling an object): A cough that has hung on for a week or more without any associated signs of illness (fever, lethargy, or body aches) or the clear discharge from the nose that signals allergies may be the result of aspiration. | | | Cough medicine and allergy medicines do not help, either. |
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| | Cough - DrGreene.com |
| | Other important causes of chronic cough include allergies, inhaled foreign bodies, GE reflux, pertussis, chronic sinusitis, tuberculosis, inhaled irritants (smoke or fumes), pressure on the respiratory tract from the outside (perhaps from lymph nodes or blood vessels), or habit. | | | A chronic nighttime cough might signal asthma, nasal allergies, or a chronic sinus infection. | | | Asthma coughs should be treated with asthma medicines, not with cough suppressants. |
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| | Cough |
| | An uncontrolled study using cupping to relieve coughs reported a curative response in 35 of 41 patients. | | | Cupping (the use of a glass cup to create suction over a skin surface) is a traditional Chinese therapy, often used for patients to help relieve a cough. | | | Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) may be helpful in the treatment of a cough. |
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http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/health/Concern/Cough.htm
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| | Your Child's Cough |
| | Actually, coughing is a healthy reflex that helps clear the airways in the throat and chest. | | | Call your child's doctor unless your child has this problem often and you have medicine, such as an inhaler or nebulizer, with instructions on how to use the medicine for home treatment of your child's asthma. | | | But if the coughing does not seem to improve or your child has trouble breathing, call your child's doctor. |
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http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/sick/childs_cough.html
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| | Cough |
| | In patients without an acute pain episode, new coughs must have clear etiologies amenable to outpatient therapy if the patient is to be sent home. | | | Patient should be in isolation if cough is productive and chest x-ray shows cavitation or upper lobe pneumonia. | | | Low grade fever, unchanged WBC or elevated WBC with reactive lymphocytosis, negative chest x-ray, upper respiratory prodrome and dry cough or clear sputum suggest a viral illness. |
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http://www.scinfo.org/cough.htm
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| | Cough |
| | Persistent coughing, often accompanied by chest pain, difficulty breathing, fever, and the production of dark or bloody mucus, can result from such serious medical conditions as pneumonia, congestive heart failure, and a tumor in the lungs, throat, or larynx. | | | Cough remedies and self-care measures, such as drinking plenty of fluids and using a humidifier to moisten the air, can make coughs easier to bear and perhaps speed recovery. | | | The reflex is set in motion when an irritant enters the respiratory system and stimulates tiny cough receptors in the respiratory passages to secrete extra mucus. |
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http://www.wholehealthmd.com/print/view/1,1560,RA_451_learn,00.html
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| | Cough |
| | Cough is a natural reflex expulsive defence mechanism of the body, for clearing excess secretions or mucous or inhaled irritants or toxins or foreign substance in the respiratory tract. | | | Normally, cough is an involuntary reflex, which is controlled by a complex interaction of nerve fibres. | | | Burning pain in chest with sour eructation is gastro esophageal reflux |
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http://www.chennaionline.com/health/Homoeopathy/2004/10homoeopathy12.asp
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| | COUGH |
| | Beyond this point expulsion, is accomplished by means of the cough reflex. | | | Meakins in an analysis of the major complaint of one thousand patients found it to be cough in 167 (roughly 17%.) In N.E.T. practice cough is a much more frequently encountered than in the above representative figures for general hospital patients. | | | Jackson - JAMA 79:1399, 1922 (bronchoscopic observations on the cough reflex) |
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http://www.jeghers.com/annts/COUGH.html
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| | PharmWeb - Coughs |
| | An individual with a productive chesty cough will notice the presence of the mucus on the chest because they are coughing some of this phlegm off their chest. | | | It may also soothe the chest in the case of a dry cough. | | | Inhaling steam helps to break up any phlegm on the chest in the case of a chesty cough. |
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http://www.pharmweb.net/pwmirror/pwz/conditions/cough.html
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| | Cough |
| | While people can generally cough voluntarily, a cough is usually a reflex triggered when an irritant stimulates one or more of the cough receptors found at different points in the respiratory system. | | | Some chronic conditions, such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and cystic fibrosis, are characterized in part by a cough. | | | The choice of remedy will vary and be specific to the type of cough the patient has. |
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http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/cough.jsp
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| | Cough |
| | Chronic bronchitis may be easily excited by extraneous factors such as frequent movement, exercise and palpation of the chest and throat. | | | These remedies address both acute and chronic cough. | | | If your dog has chronic bronchitis you need to take a broader approach in natural support. |
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http://www.naturalcanine.com/html/cough.html
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Toxin du jour (Cough Dropped) |
| | This is not to say cough CPR couldn't be effectively taught to patients deemed at risk of further heart attacks. | | | Forget about coughing — key to surviving a heart attack is obtaining proper medical assistance within a very limited window of opportunity. | | | It is one thing for success to be achieved in a hospital setting where patients know intervention will swiftly follow if problems are encountered, and quite another when patients are in unscripted settings (at home, at work, or while driving in a car). |
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| | cough |
| | - Chronic cough may be caused by a variety of underlying diseases including asthma, cystic fibrosis, allergies, GERD and chronic post nasal drip. | | | This information is of a general nature and may not apply to your special circumstances. | | | - Antihistamines and decongestants may be a good choice for treating coughs associated with post nasal drip. |
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http://rxinsider.com/monographs/cough.htm
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| | Cough - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital |
| | Severe chest pain, coughed up blood or wheezing. | | | Call Your Doctor Within 24 Hours (between 9am and 4pm) If You think your child needs to be seen. | | | Your child becomes worse or develops any of the "Call Your Doctor" symptoms. |
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http://www.lpch.org/HealthLibrary/ParentCareTopics/MouthTeethThroatSymptoms/Cough.html
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| | Cough |
| | Cough with no complications and you don't think you need to be seen | | | Read the package instructions thoroughly on all medications that you take. | | | Chest pain (EXCEPTION: mild chest pain lasting only a few seconds that occurs only when coughing) |
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http://www.selfcare.info/hc1/adult/BreathingorChestSymptoms/Cough.htm
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| | Cough Home remedy, whooping cough symptoms information |
| | A cough can develop in the chest due to change in weather or seasonal changes. | | | This action causes his glottis to close and his muscles to contract, thus building up pressure in the chest. | | | Grapes are one of the most effective home remedies for the treatment of a cough. |
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http://www.home-remedies-for-you.com/remedy/Cough.html
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| | Best remedy for a child's cough? Water |
| | The research, published in the medical journal Pediatrics, concludes that parents who treat a child's nighttime cough with the widely available medications are wasting their money. | | | "But our study showed that the two ingredients used in most over-the-counter medications were no better than a placebo, non-medicated syrup, in providing nighttime relief for children with cough and sleep difficulty as a result of upper-respiratory infection," he said. | | | The study confirms what many physicians already know. |
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| | Amazon.com: Cough: Causes, Mechanisms and Therapy: Books |
| | SIPs: afferent nerve subtypes, cough network, cough motor pattern, specific antitussive therapy, cough reflex sensitivity (more) | | | Discusses treatments and pitfalls in management, and summarizes current research about physiology, pharmacology, and treatment. | | | Cough is a symptom that has been experienced by every human and is an essential protective and defensive act whose action secures the removal of mucus, noxious substances and infections from the larynx, trachea and larger bronchi. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/140511634X?v=glance
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| | Cough |
| | Milk does not need to be eliminated with a cough or cold, unless milk allergy is suspected. | | | Wheezing or recurrent pneumonia may be associated with reflux. | | | Coughs may be a helpful mechanism for the body to protect the lungs, they do not necessarily need to be suppressed. |
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| | Whooping Cough News |
| | Health Officials Focusing on Infants as Whooping Cough Surge Continues The Texas Department of Health and local health departments are focusing on protecting infants as they continue to battle a surge in the... | | | Question: What are the symptoms of whooping cough or pertussis? | | | NEW South Wales Health has warned parents to be vigilant for symptoms of whooping cough as the number of cases rise across the state. |
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http://www.topix.net/health/whooping-cough
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| | ► Cough |
| | The cough reflex is one of the body's best defense mechanisms. | | | This kind of cough is termed "productive", and usually should not be suppressed by drugs. | | | Such coughs are not helpful and may be treated with cough suppressants. |
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| | Coughing |
| | If you think you might have asthma, you should check with a physician. | | | If you have chest pain either when you cough or when you are not coughing. | | | If you are suffering from a cough caused by a less serious cause like a common cold, you may decide to simply treat the symptoms. |
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http://www.byu.edu/shc/library/common/cough.html
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| | Coughing in Children - Keep Kids Healthy Symptom Guide |
| | cough variant asthma: this is a form of asthma in which children only have a cough and do not have wheezing. | | | These children have a nonproductive cough that is worse at night, may be made worse by exercise and cold air, may be seasonal and is made better with bronchodilator treatments that are usually used to treat asthma. | | | Coughing is a common symptom in children and usually accompanies an infection with the common cold virus, but it can indicate a more serious disorder, especially if your child is having difficulty breathing. |
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http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/symptoms/coughing.html
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| | Whooping cough |
| | This cough may last for months, even after antibiotic treatment when the patient is no longer infectious. | | | Whooping cough should be diagnosed and treated immediately if there is a typical history of the disease. | | | Severe reactions to the vaccine are rare, and they are much less common than the effects that occur with the disease itself. |
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| | Productive cough |
| | Mucus may be produced in the lungs because of bronchitis, pneumonia, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). | | | Home treatment may be all that is needed to provide relief if you have a productive cough and postnasal drainage but do not have other symptoms. | | | For smokers, the most effective way to treat a cough is to stop smoking. |
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| | Cough -- familydoctor.org |
| | Over-the-counter cough medicines may help the cough, but they won't cure the problem. | | | This is likely to be from a serious condition called PULMONARY EDEMA (fluid in the lungs). | | | Coughing can come from CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, especially when there is a buildup of fluid in the lungs. |
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| | Lingering Coughs And Ear Infections - DrGreene.com |
| | Erythromycin, azithromycin (Zithromax), and clarithromycin (Biaxin) work very well to treat patients with diseases caused by mycoplasmas. | | | Suspect a mycoplasma infection when a cough, sore throat, ear infection, or wheezing doesn't clear up as expected from treatment. | | | The cough has become increasingly prominent even though the fever and other symptoms have gone away. |
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| | Cough |
| | People can also have a chronic cough, see Chronic cough: causes and cures (http://familydoctor.org/handouts/237.html). | | | A cough is a sudden, forceful release of air from the lungs. | | | A cough is usually caused by a buildup of phlegm[?] in the trachea. |
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| | Cough definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Symptoms of asthma may also vary from indivudual to individual in type and duration. | | | Cough definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms | | | Whooping Cough (Pertussis) - Whooping cough (pertussis) has three stages with these signs and symptoms - an initial stage with watery runny nose and eyes, a progressive cough stage with characteristic (sometimes severe) coughing spells, and (if the child survives) a recovery stage. |
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| | Amazon.com: Cough: Music |
| | "Cough" opens with one of the most annoying trends in music--the intro track, which true to it's very nature is just as necessary as a kick in the face. | | | Unlike Cough, though, which seems that they've grabbed any wind instrument they could find and put it on this record, made them a more complex sound. | | | Your first listen to 'Cough' by the Black Eyes will probably leave you confused and a little bothered. |
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