
Suggest Treatment For Chronic Cough

Pulmonologist
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome,
If he has already had an evaluation from an ENT, the next step would be a pulmonologist - a doctor who specializes in lungs.
You ask how to get the cough to go away faster, but for that we would need to know what is causing the problem. It's possible that the mold and paint fume exposures have caused a chronic inflammatory process.
One way to suppress the coughing fits is with a codeine based cough suppressant. This requires a prescription, perhaps the ENT will help with this until he sees the pulmonologist and gets this sorted out.
Be sure to sign a release of records at the previous doctor's offices to have it sent to the pulmonologist's office so that he/she does not have to repeat chest X-rays, pulmonary function tests, or other evaluations that have been done.
I understand your frustration with the various doctors who are guessing and saying "try this" without knowing what the underlying problem is definitively. Sometimes when medical problems are hard to sort out, and where the risks from medications are less than the risks from testing and the likelihood of getting results from testing (such as giving an acid reducer like Omeprazole vs having an upper GI endoscopy), we give meds in a "try this, try that" way. But if these have not helped, it's time for further exploration.

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