Types of cough:
- Dry cough:
- No mucus is present
- Usually due to a minor irritation in the throat or larynx
- Productive cough:
- Mucus is present
- Usually due to an infection
- Can be blood-streaked in smokers with COPD
- Acute cough:
- New
- Usually due to an infection
- Chronic cough:
Causes for chronic cough include:
