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What Causes Dry Coughing And Tickling In Lungs?

I have been having an annoying dry cough for about a couple of months and getting a little more annoying the last few days. It is a dry cough and I always feel a tickle in the upper part of my lungs. AT night I am fine but it starts up again in the morning.
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Hello
You are having "dry cough " from last many months usually worse early in the morning (as mentioned by you in your query ) .
This type of cough ( dry ) may be due to these reasons , these include.
1 Smokers cough , if you are smokers then this may be a prominent reason of such cough . Dry cough present because of allergy to smoke.
If you are not a smoker , inspite of this you may have a dry hacking cough due to allergy to certain allergens, these are dust , mite , pollen , mold , sudden increase or decrease in temperature , humidity , fine dusting powder.
Such allergen causes bronchoconstriction , hence bronchospasm , hence tickle in throat or lungs and cough .
When such patient visit I prescribe them to take monteleukast+ fexofenadine tablet once or twice in day . Also take terbutalin+ guiaphesine + dextromethophan syrup .
2 As I mentioned above 2nd reason of such symptoms may be due to astmatic allergic bronchitis . All allergens mentioned above may be the predisposing factors of Asthmatic allergic bronchitis ( usually in this type of dry cough there also develops breathlessness i.e. shortness in breath ) I usually prescribe monteleukast= bambuterole tablet once / day.
3 Sometimes foreign particle inhalation causes such sever dry hacking cough . So if you think that something is inhaled consult a pulmonologist and get bronchoscopy for removal of inhaled particle .
Hope this will help you.
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What Causes Dry Coughing And Tickling In Lungs?

Hello You are having dry cough from last many months usually worse early in the morning (as mentioned by you in your query ) . This type of cough ( dry ) may be due to these reasons , these include. 1 Smokers cough , if you are smokers then this may be a prominent reason of such cough . Dry cough present because of allergy to smoke. If you are not a smoker , inspite of this you may have a dry hacking cough due to allergy to certain allergens, these are dust , mite , pollen , mold , sudden increase or decrease in temperature , humidity , fine dusting powder. Such allergen causes bronchoconstriction , hence bronchospasm , hence tickle in throat or lungs and cough . When such patient visit I prescribe them to take monteleukast+ fexofenadine tablet once or twice in day . Also take terbutalin+ guiaphesine + dextromethophan syrup . 2 As I mentioned above 2nd reason of such symptoms may be due to astmatic allergic bronchitis . All allergens mentioned above may be the predisposing factors of Asthmatic allergic bronchitis ( usually in this type of dry cough there also develops breathlessness i.e. shortness in breath ) I usually prescribe monteleukast= bambuterole tablet once / day. 3 Sometimes foreign particle inhalation causes such sever dry hacking cough . So if you think that something is inhaled consult a pulmonologist and get bronchoscopy for removal of inhaled particle . Hope this will help you.