nonproductive cough

A nonproductive cough is dry and does not produce sputum.

There are many causes of a nonproductive cough, such as:

Answer: Typically a nonproductive cough is a secondary symptom.

Roughly one-third of patients had nonproductive cough.

A nonproductive cough, particularly at night, may mean spasms in the bronchial tubes (bronchospasm) caused by irritation.

Expectorants are used to change a dry, nonproductive cough into a productive one (that is, one that brings up phlegm).

The acute respiratory disease is characterized by respiratory symptoms, a general ill feeling, fever, chest pains, and a dry or nonproductive cough.

Worms in the bronchial region can trigger a chronic, nonproductive cough and asthma-like symptoms due to the obstruction of airways by the worms.

Disease may initially involve a prodrome of fever, chills, nonproductive cough, chest pain, headache, myalgias, and malaise.

Older adults may have different, fewer, or milder symptoms, such as no fever or a cough with no mucus (a dry or nonproductive cough).

Cough-variant asthma usually does not cause wheezing or breathlessness and causes a dry, scratchy, mostly nonproductive cough (this means little or no phlegm is coughed up).

CMV pneumonia is an interstitial process with gradual onset of shortness of breath and dry, nonproductive cough; auscultatory findings may be minimal.

During the course of the illness, there may be nonproductive cough, hemoptysis, chylous pleural effusion, or chylous ascites.

After 3--7 days, a lower respiratory phase begins with the onset of a dry, nonproductive cough or dyspnea, which might be accompanied by or progress to hypoxemia.

The most common manifestations of PCP among HIV-infected persons are the subacute onset of progressive dyspnea, fever, nonproductive cough, and chest discomfort that worsens within days to weeks.