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Five Types of Cough You Need to Know

Types of cough

Coughs could be tagged into different groups based on standards such as behaviors or experiences, durations, pathological causes, effects, grades, and more. For instance, behavioral types of cough are associated with your behaviors. Do you cough during the ingestion of food or after the ingestion of food? Is your cough triggered by a deep breath or laughter? If we categorize cough by duration, it could be divided into acute cough (less than 3 weeks), subacute cough (3-8 weeks), and chronic cough (more than 8 weeks).

Different coughs have different clinical manifestations. Identifying the types of cough help you understand the underlying diseases and seek the proper treatments. From the perspectives of its pathological causes, this article introduces five types of cough in the following content. Keep reading and find out more details. [2]