Managing patients with chronic cough: challenges and solutions

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Table 1 Main steps currently recommended in chronic cough management

1. Initial clinical evaluation

Checking for warning signs

Environmental and occupational assessment

Drugs intake (ace inhibitor)

2. Most frequent causes assessment and treatment

Asthma and cough-variant asthma

Non-asthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis

Gastroesophageal reflux disease

Upper airway cough syndrome

3. Consider other causes in case of inadequate response to treatment

Non-asthmatic pulmonary diseases

Obstructive sleep apnea

Cardiac arrythmias

Somatic cough syndrome

4. Consider refractory chronic cough

Abbreviation: ACE, angiotensin-converting enzyme.