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Chronic Cough Causes in Children

  • See Also
  1. Chronic Cough in Children
  1. Congenital Anomaly
    1. Airway malformation
    2. Tracheoesophageal fistula
    3. Vascular Ring
    4. Primary ciliary Dyskinesia
    5. Cystic Fibrosis
    6. Immune deficiency
  2. Infection
    1. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
    2. Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
    3. Pertussis
    4. Chlamydia
    5. Tuberculosis
  1. Reactive changes
    1. Asthma
    2. Postnasal discharge (Sinusitis)
  2. Passive smoke
  3. Infection
    1. Viral causes
    2. Pertussis
    3. Mycoplasma pneumonia
    4. Tuberculosis
  4. Foreign Body Aspiration
  5. Congenital Anomaly
    1. Cystic Fibrosis
    2. Primary ciliary Dyskinesia
    3. Immune deficiency
  • Causes
  • Chronic Cough in school age children (ages 6 to 15 years old)
  1. Reactive changes
    1. Asthma
    2. Environmental irritants (e.g. Air Pollution, Active or passive smoking)
    3. Upper Airway Cough Syndrome (Post Nasal Discharge)
  2. Gastroesophageal Reflux
  3. Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis
    1. Di Filippo (2018) Ann Thoracic Med 13(1): 7-13 [PubMed]
  4. Lung Infection
    1. Mycoplasma pneumonia
    2. Tuberculosis
  5. Other uncommon causes
    1. Immunodeficiency
    2. Cystic Fibrosis
    3. Psychogenic cough
    4. Tourette syndrome
    5. Bronchiectasis
    6. Aspiration lung disease
  • References
  1. Benich (2011) Am Fam Physician 84(8): 887-92 [PubMed]
  2. Michaudet (2017) Am Fam Physician 96(9): 575-80 [PubMed]
  3. Sonoda (2024) Am Fam Physician 110(2): 167-73 [PubMed]