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What Causes Persistent Dry Cough In A 6 Month Old?

I live in Dehradun, India and my son is 6 year old and suffering from dry cough once in a day since from last 5 months and once i visited local paed. he uide me do test IGE level in his blood and reports shows a significant increase of IGE levels inhis blood i.e. around 300 value and he prescribed to take 1 tablet of Livocast kid a day and since from last 4-5 months i am giving this to him, i have cahnged his envirnment by chinging his place but no fruitful results shown than 1 doctor prescribed him Foracort-inhaler-100 twice a day he is feeling better but i am scared of side effects of using that regularly, since i am not giving puf to him he is fine only with livokast kid i am confused whether i give puf to him or not?
Mon, 4 Aug 2014
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hello, thanks for your query, in my opinion ur chaild having allergy related cough. for that leokast kid daily at. bed time can be used prophylacticly. inhaler can be used during acute episodes(as an instant treatment in sudden severe cough) all the best. take care.
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What Causes Persistent Dry Cough In A 6 Month Old?

hello, thanks for your query, in my opinion ur chaild having allergy related cough. for that leokast kid daily at. bed time can be used prophylacticly. inhaler can be used during acute episodes(as an instant treatment in sudden severe cough) all the best. take care.