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What Causes Acid Reflux And Persistent Cough?
58 year old female ...I have been diagnosed with acid reflux and have had a very persistent cough for 10 months 8 weeks ago had an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, have taken over the counter drugs and now pantoprazole sodium ec 40 mg (6 weeks) no improvement. Can t sleep from coughing, loosing weight and have coughing spells where I cant breath. email YYYY@YYYY
Wed, 19 Jul 2017
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Reflux is a common reason for a chronic/persistent cough but if you are consistently using the medication and have made diet changes for reflux, then your doctor may need to consider other possibilities.
If the symptoms of reflux (except the cough) , are very bad then infection with H pylori would need to be ruled out. A blood test can check for this bacteria.
If this not the case, then other causes of chronic cough should be considered, some persons have more than one cause.
The other causes would be: (1) post nasal drip (the most common cause)
Some persons are not aware of the drip itself but only have the cough
(2)asthma
(3)non asthmatic eosinophilic bronchiits
Your doctor can determine if one of these is involved with your cough
I hope this helps
Reflux is a common reason for a chronic/persistent cough but if you are consistently using the medication and have made diet changes for reflux, then your doctor may need to consider other possibilities.
If the symptoms of reflux (except the cough) , are very bad then infection with H pylori would need to be ruled out. A blood test can check for this bacteria.
If this not the case, then other causes of chronic cough should be considered, some persons have more than one cause.
The other causes would be: (1) post nasal drip (the most common cause)
Some persons are not aware of the drip itself but only have the cough
(2)asthma
(3)non asthmatic eosinophilic bronchiits
Your doctor can determine if one of these is involved with your cough
I hope this helps
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