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While a COVID-19 cough can be persistent and frustrating, you can alleviate symptoms with a few home remedies.
Cough is a COVID-19 symptom that can linger for weeks even after the infection has cleared up. While recovering from a virus, you may experience a persistent dry cough, although others have reported experiencing a wet or productive cough with a lot of mucus. Here are a few things that you can try at home to speed up recovery.
9 home remedies for a COVID-19 cough
If your cough does not subside even with home remedies, schedule an appointment with your doctor. If an underlying medical condition is hindering your body’s ability to clear the cough, your doctor may put you on stronger medications, such as antiviral pills or monoclonal antibody infusions.
What causes you to cough?
Coughing is a natural reflex that helps your body clear mucus and dust from your throat, which can cause inflammation in your respiratory tract.
One theory suggests that persistent cough after COVID-19 is due to the impact of the coronavirus on the vagus nerve, which controls the cough reflex. Interactions between the virus and the airway vagus nerve, in addition to inflammation of the nervous system caused by the virus, are the primary factors that initiate COVID-19 cough. Another assumption is that a post-infection cough is your body’s attempt to clear excess secretions in the recovery stage.
If your cough lasts longer than 8 weeks, it may be due to causes other than COVID-19, such as:
Treating the above conditions may help clear your cough.
How can you tell the difference between COVID-19 cough and other coughs?
There is nothing unique about COVID-19 cough that can help distinguish it from cough caused by other illnesses, such as viral or bacterial pneumonia.
However, COVID-19 cough in hospital cases seems to be painful and dry, accompanied by lower blood oxygen levels and difficulty breathing without coughing.
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