There are two primary types of coughs, dry and productive. A productive cough is one in which you are coughing up phlegm or mucous-this is not a cough that should be suppressed, as your body needs to rid itself of the gunk that’s in your chest/lungs. While it shouldn’t be suppress...
Call your doctor if your cough (or your child's cough) doesn't go away after a few weeks or if it also involves any one of these:Coughing up thick, greenish-yellow phlegm.Wheezing.Experiencing a fever. Why do you cough with congestive heart failure?
However, since the coughing wasn’t very severe, he didn’t pay much attention to it when he woke up the next day. ADVERTISEMENT Later, however, he started experiencing persistent cough, yellow phlegm, and a noticeable cockroach odour in his mouth, which prompted him to seek medical treatment...