Acute Cough
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Bronchitis - acute
Symptoms
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Cough - Stays steady or gets increasingly worse for 10 days to 2 weeks
- Worse at night
- Starts out dry and irritating, but becomes increasing looseover time
- May cough upmucus. (Younger kids usually can't cough this up; they swallow it.)
- In very rare cases, patients maycough up blood (blood streaked sputum). See a doctor if this happens.
- Lasts for less than 6-8 weeks
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