People have a cough at night. Sometimes it's about bronchitis, sometimes snot runs down from the nose, sometimes it's not all right with the heart. There are different reasons.
Which hints at the reason
If a person lies down and a cough rolls over him, then the reason may be in the snot that flows down the back of the throat.
Even in the supine position in people with heart failure, the lungs fill with blood. Someone from this will have shortness of breath, and someone will have a night cough.
Normal acid reflux from the stomach can be accompanied not only by heartburn, but also by a nocturnal cough. Simply because lying down does not return the acid back to the stomach, but irritates the airways.
If a lot of clear glassy sputum is coughing up at night, then the case may be in bronchial asthma. Someone has this reaction to house dust or pet allergens flying around the bedroom. At the workplace, there are no allergens and there is no cough, but at home a person coughs on their favorite bed.
If the sputum is purulent - yellow or green, then this may be a sign that it has flowed out of a cavity. For example, from the paranasal sinuses or from bronchiectasis.
If there is a cough, but there is no sputum, then this may be a side effect of drugs.
How quickly will it pass
Your doctor can relieve your cough, but this usually does not happen overnight.
A common cough with a common cold goes away by itself in 3 weeks. That is, all this time they do nothing with the person. We must pull ourselves together and be patient.
If a person coughed from smoking, then quitting smoking will have to wait another 2 months. Only then will the cough decrease.
If the cough was from medication, then you will have to wait a month even after the drug is discontinued.
If the matter was in acid reflux, then it will take 2 - 3 months to wait for improvement.
If it was in bronchial asthma, then you can cough for years.
Do you manage to tolerate 3 weeks of a common cough with a cold?
