The younger the child, the more the need to exclude underlying disease at an early stage. Passive smoking is an important contributor to chronic cough in children. Chronic productive cough with ...

For more than a decade Bethan has been living with a chronic refractory cough, the medical term for a condition with no obvious cause. It's a common complaint thought to affect one in ten of the ...

Background: Children presenting with chronic cough are common to the primary care physicians, but data on the etiology are scant. Methods: We evaluated 40 children (age range, 5 to 12 years ...

Introduction and objectives Idiopathic chronic cough patients have symptoms that persist despite trials of empirical treatment with no underlying cause found. Higher-order brain processes are involved ...