Health -- Sometimes the cough can not be considered a trivial matter. Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Raja M Flores said, coughing can be a sign of serious, life-threatening disease.
If the cough has lasted for over two weeks or does not go away even after taking medicine, do not delay seeing a doctor. Here are five serious disease that needs to be watched when not quickly stop coughing.
1. Pertussis
Pertussis or whooping cough is an infectious disease caused by bacterial infection of the lungs and respiratory tract. Pertussis can be hard persistent cough after a long sigh.
The early symptoms of pertussis are similar to the flu, the common cold, mild cough, and fever. Gradually the cough was not recovered. If not promptly treated, pertussis can develop into pneumonia.
Lucky existing pertussis vaccine given to infants. It is unfortunate if there is a group of people who refused the vaccine.
In a study published in the journal JAMA, in 2012 soared highest pertussis cases and 20 people died after a group of people who refuse vaccination.
2. Lung Cancer
In a study published in the journal Chest, approximately 60 percent of patients with lung cancer experienced a chronic cough. According to the doctor King, cough and even often the only symptom of lung cancer appears.
Beware of lung cancer when the cough has lasted more than two weeks and accompanied by coughing up blood, hoarseness, mucus, painful swallowing, and pain in the chest. Lung cancer was not only needs to be watched by the smoker, but also non-smokers.
3. Pneumonia
A cough that does not go away is also one of the common symptoms of pneumonia. Cough is usually worse at night.
If the cough does not heal after 10 days, it is difficult sunbathe, chest pain, fever, cough mucus is green or yellowish, do further tests to physicians.
Blood tests and chest X-ray is necessary to detect the disease or not. Pneumonia is generally caused by pneumococcus bacteria infection.
4. COPD
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a lung disease that were encountered. The lung disease can cause breathing difficulties. COPD average experienced by smokers.
Someone who smoke or former smokers who experience chronic cough with lots of mucus, especially in the morning, be aware of COPD. Other symptoms of COPD include shortness of breath. Do not ignore the problem of COPD because it can decrease lung function.
5. Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by tuberculosis bacteria. Weakened immune someone who is more at risk of developing tuberculosis.
Symptoms of tuberculosis include a cough that does not go away, chest pain, fatigue, weight loss, fever, night sweats, sometimes to cough up blood.
Tuberculosis can be fatal if not treated until complete. TB germs can spread to the spine, joints, brain, even the heart.
Tuberculosis is treatable with antibiotics routinely. People who do not obey the consumption of antibiotics can cause tuberculosis bacteria resistance to antibiotics so that healing so much longer and harder.
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