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Health Encyclopedia: Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Diseases With Similar Symptoms

Diseases with Similar Symptoms

Severaldiseases have similar symptoms --and may accompany COLD.

Acute Bronchitis

Acute bronchitis is usually caused by a virus, and in most cases does not require treatment. The cough it causes typically lasts for about a week to 10 days. In about half of patients, however, coughing can last up to 3 weeks, and 25% of patients continue to cough for over 1 month. Although acute bronchitis is usually not considered a serious problem, one 1999 study reported that a third ...

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Expert & Community Posts

Can my cough be due to acid reflux?

By Todd Eisner , Health Expert

Chronic cough and even chest pain can be caused by acid reflux. This can be difficult to diagnose... Read more »

Understanding Cough Variant Asthma

By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert

...8 weeks. It can occur any time of the day, though coughing at night that wakes you up is common... Read more »

The Never Ending Cough: Is Cough Medication the Answer?

By James Thompson, MD , Health Expert

We have almost made it through the last of outdoor allergy season. Ragweed has run its course in... Read more »

Q and A: Acid Reflux and Your Lungs

By Todd Eisner , Health Expert

...asthma and aspiration. Refluxed liquid can cause coughing by stimulating nerves that provoke... Read more »

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Pneumonia: Symptoms

...following:High feverA rapid heart rateBluish-toned (cyanotic) skinLabored and heavy breathing.Mental confusionCoughing up mucus (sputum) containing pus or bloodSymptoms in the Elderly. It is... Read more »

Sinusitis: Highlights

New Sinusitis GuidelinesIn 2005, the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology and the American College of Allergy Asthma & Immunology released joint guidelines on the diagnosis and... Read more »

Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms

Many symptoms of heart failure result from the congestion that develops as fluid backs up into the lungs and leaks into the tissues. Other symptoms result from inadequate delivery of... Read more »

Asthma Signs and Symptoms in Children

...infections, which may be accompanied by high fever and progress rapidly. Any child who has frequent coughing or respiratory infections should be checked for asthma.Typical Asthma SymptomsThe... Read more »

Adult Asthma Symptoms

...risk for this effect tend to be older, female, and to have hadthe disease for a longer period of time.Coughing. In some people, the first symptom of asthma is a nonproductive cough. Some patients... Read more »

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