What reason is midnight cough

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Recently, I don't cough in the daytime. It starts in the middle of the night. I have a habit that I often surf the Internet until the middle of the night and smoke a lot at night. But I don't cough at all in the daytime. I know that smoking has a certain impact. But what causes a cough in the middle of the night?

What reason is midnight cough

Factor 1: when sleeping at night, the muscles relax, the air entering becomes less, and more nasal endocrine flows to the throat and lungs, so people with asthma will cough more in the early morning. In addition, persistent coughing may be caused by other causes, including sinusitis, vomiting, taking certain drugs or infection.

Factor 2: cough at night is the main symptom of respiratory diseases, such as cough without sputum or dry cough with little sputum, which is common in the early stage of acute laryngitis and bronchitis; acute sudden cough is more common in bronchial foreign bodies; long-term chronic cough is more common in chronic bronchitis and tuberculosis.

Factor 3: cough at night, after virus infection, can directly damage the respiratory tract epithelium, resulting in increased respiratory responsiveness. Some scholars believe that interferon and IL-1 produced by virus infection increase histamine released by basophils.

matters needing attention

In the treatment of cough, do not take antibiotics for a long time, to find out the cause, on the basis of the treatment of primary disease, choose appropriate cough expectorant drugs, pay attention to nursing.