Unfortunately, each year allergies affect more and more people of any age. The most popular group suffering from allergies is children. Therefore, caring about the health of your family, learning how to recognise an allergic cough will facilitate the beginning of effective treatment and make it possible to avoid complications.
an allergic cough:
appears most often when the plants blossom (spring and summer), but not always,,
can be a symptom of aero and food allergies,
can be both wet (productive) and dry, tiring and even wheezing and causes a feeling of shortness of breath (when asthma is developing),
there are often other symptoms of an allergy – a convulsive cough, watery rhinitis and lachrymation of the eyes are typical symptoms of allergies,
appears in the form of coughing fits most often at night and early morning,
proceeds without fever (increased body temperature is a symptom of an infection).
If you notice that you or your child have similar symptoms, contact a physician. Simple and painless tests, such as: spirometry, chest X-ray, hyperreactivity test of the bronchi, morphology or allergic skin tests will help determine what is causing the cough.
