Coughing Fits

What is a Cough?

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Coughing is plainly and simply the body's attempt to expel something from its lungs or airways that is not wanted.

How it Originates
A cough is one of the most amazing functions of the entire human body, originating with the "cilia" of our lungs. These cilia are a kind of broom in charge of first sweeping up unwanted debris and then expelling it through an intricate choreography you and I think of simply as a cough.

Examples
Just because you smoke and have developed a cough -- even the hacking variety -- does not necessarily follow that your cough is the result of smoking. But if you do smoke, the chances are good to probable that your smoking is related to your cough.

Even if it is not, there is little question your continued smoking could aggravate your cough -- if it isn't doing so already.

When you smoke, the tar in a cigarette pastes itself to the cilia of your lungs. This undermines their ability to oxygenate blood, in turn compromising breathing. The heart gets angry and tells us so -- often by palpitating.

Confused by the dismal amount of oxygen entering the bloodstream, the heart then decides it needs to work harder, which is the only way it knows how to supply more blood to your crippled lungs.

Over time, this leads to an overworked, enlarged heart, which struggles even harder to pump oxygen out of your tar-caked lungs and into your trillion-odd, oxygen-starved cells.

Warning Signs
Because the root cause of a cough can be the result of so many conditions, quitting or at least cutting down dramatically can unquestionably help you and your medical doctor more quickly determine both the cause of your cough and just how greatly smoking may be aggravating your particular situation. Here is a partial list of what can make you cough:

• Ace inhibitors


• Acid reflux


• Asthma


• Bloating


• Bronchiectasis


• Congestive heart failure


• Chemicals


• Chronic bronchitis


• Chronic infections


• Fumes


• GERD (Gastro-esophagealesophageal reflux disease)


• Heartburn


• Inflamation of the airways


• interstitial lung disease


• Irritation of upper respiratory tract


• Medications


• Pollution


• Refulx disease


• Tumors


• Stomach pain

What to Do
Any cough that is persistent (chronic cough) should be evaluated by a medical doctor, the sooner the better. A cough is among among our body's most immediate ways of alerting us to a condition and its possible urgency.

On the other hand, don't be alarmed by a chronic cough. Be grateful that your body is advising you of a situation which, the earlier it is treated, will certainly be to your benefit.

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