What Your Winter Cough Could Be Trying to Tell You ; It's the Time of Year We All Start Getting Coughs. Most Clear Up Within a Few Days, but If Yours Doesn't, It Could Be the Sign of Something More Serious

Daily Mail › October 21, 2008

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WHILE most coughs clear up within days, around 20 per cent become chronic and some can persist for years. It's important that any cough that has lasted for more than eight weeks is checked out by your GP.

Here, with the help of experts, ANGELA EPSTEIN looks at chronic coughs, their causes, and what treatment is available..

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What Your Winter Cough Could Be Trying to Tell You ; It's the Time of Year We All Start Getting Coughs. Most Clear Up Within a Few Days, but If Yours Doesn't, It Could Be the Sign of Something More Serious

/POST NASAL DRIP COUGH SYMPTOMS: Irritating, tickly or dry cough with a feeling of mucus or catarrh dripping down the throat. Can feel like there is a lump in the throat, eased by continually clearing it.

It may last for years and cause the throat to become sore and swollen. Accounts for 7 per cent of coughs.

CAUSE: The glands which line the nose and sinuses produce up to four pints of clear thin mucus a day....

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