Cough

Differential Diagnosis

Acute

• URI (rhinitis, sinusitis, pertussis)
• LRI (bronchitis, PNA)
• Allergy
• Asthma
• Environmental irritants
• Transient airway hyperresponsiveness
• Foreign body

Chronic

• Postinfectious; pertussis
• Smoking and/or chronic bronchitis
• Postnasal discharge
• Asthma
• GERD
• ACEI/ARB
• CHF
• Lung cancer or intrathoracic mass
• Emphysema
• Interstitial lung disease
• Psychiatric