Do not underestimate Cough Like This!

Often we think the symptoms of colds cough is common. In fact, there are many diseases that can be characterized by a cough. Therefore, be aware if the following conditions accompanying your cough.

* When sputum turns thick, brown, or green.
* When the continuous cough for over two weeks and did not improve.
* When accompanied by other symptoms such as cough sounds sighed, breathing and wheezing, pain and pressure in the chest (chest pain).
* If you followed a lot of phlegm fever, with a temperature greater than 38 degrees Celsius.
* Cough accompanied by weight loss.

White or dark
Phlegm or mucus that sometimes accompanies a cough can be derived from the nasal cavity, facial bones cavity (sinus), or lungs. There are several colors of mucus that can be used as a benchmark to determine if your cough is severe or not.

* Clear white phlegm. Means no harmful diseases in your body.
* They are white and foamy. This is a result of smoking cigarettes in the long term.
* Tinted green or brown. Indicate the presence of lung infections, such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Generally caused by bacteria.
* Mixed blood or dark colored like rust. Indicate the presence of serious illness, such as cancer and tuberculosis.

Produktifkah you cough?
There are two types of cough, ie productive and unproductive.
* Cough productive cough with phlegm is called. Phlegm is useful to clear the airways naturally. Sputum should be removed, rather than swallowed.
* Phlegm in throat usually appears as a result of respiratory tract infections, such as influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, and so on. Productive cough may also occur because the airways are sensitive to exposure to dust, air pollution, cigarette smoke, and excessive moisture.
* Cough productive cough with phlegm is called. In this type of cough throat will feel itchy, dry, and pain. Cough is the case in the absence of respiratory secretions or irritation of the throat, causing pain.

According to its kind, cough medicine can be divided into two groups:
1. Cough expectorants (thinning phlegm). Useful for treating coughs with phlegm as it works to stimulate and facilitate expenditure phlegm or mucus. Expectorant substances serve to increase the flow of normal fluid and help relieve throat pain.

2. Cough antitussive (cough suppressant). Cough suppressant action on cough control center in the brain called the medulla, or in the center of irritation in the throat, which makes reactivation cough center. The drug is used for cough with phlegm. Usually available in liquid and solid form.

Dr. Mita, lung specialist from Gatot Subroto Army Hospital said the types of cough medicine can be taken without a prescription. Even so, the rules of life should still be noted. For a more robust type usually have a doctor's prescription.

Do not choose the wrong cough medicine. If cough wrong treatment, for instance given cough medicine dry cough with phlegm, cough even will not abate. "It stimulated airway remove phlegm continues. In fact, dry cough caused by irritation, "said Dr.. Mita.

If the cough is not treated, it can lead to rupture of air pockets in the lungs, so the lungs and make breathing flat seams, stitching the incision can be loose, hernia or bowel discharge of places that could have happened. For older women who gave birth to many children, can experience uterine prolapse (uterus discharge of their proper place)
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