What Causes a Hoarse Cough?

Caused by laryngitis. Hoarse cough is one of the symptoms of cough caused by laryngitis. The lighter person only sees that the cough sound becomes lower and thicker, and the heavy one can only hoarse or lose his voice. ,

Hoarse cough

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Hoarse cough is one of the symptoms of cough caused by laryngitis. Caused by laryngitis. Hoarseness, also known as hoarseness, is the main symptom of larynx (especially vocal cord) lesions. It is mostly caused by larynx lesions and can also be caused by systemic diseases. The degree of hoarseness varies according to the severity of the lesion. The lighter person only sees the tone becoming lower and thicker, and the heavy person can hoarse or even whisper or lose sound.

Affected area

head

Related diseases

Acute laryngitis in children Chronic laryngitis Lung fever cough Cold drink cough Chronic cough Sputum heat Cough Deficiency Cough

Related symptoms

Dry cough hoarse cough hoarse edema

Affiliated Department

Department of Otolaryngology

Related inspections

Lung ventilation imaging

Caused by laryngitis. Hoarse cough is one of the symptoms of cough caused by laryngitis. The lighter person only sees that the cough sound becomes lower and thicker, and the heavy one can only hoarse or lose his voice. ,

Diseases that may cause hoarseness cough otolaryngology acute laryngitis in children pediatric acute laryngitis chronic laryngitis laryngeal amyloidosis narrow acute infection laryngitis herpes laryngitis

1. Vocal cord polyps, vocal cord nodules, chronic laryngitis

: Patients often have excessive pronunciation, such as a long history of talking, loud shouting, a long history of crying, or inappropriate sounds, habitual throat clearing, a history of frequent tobacco and alcohol irritation, chronic laryngitis and early vocal nodules

It is intermittent, and hoarseness will appear later after vocalization. When the vocal cord lesions are obvious, continuous hoarseness can also appear, and the vocal nodules and vocal polyp are mostly continuous hoarseness.

2. Accompanied by sore throat and swallowing pain, which appears after a cold and fever, which may be acute sore throat. Severe sore throat that does not heal for a long time, but also consider the possibility of laryngeal tuberculosis or malignant tumors.

3. The sound is dumb, even harsh, accompanied by a feeling of obstruction of the throat, cough, blood in the sputum, and neck mass. Older patients should be alert to the possibility of laryngeal cancer; in addition, extra-laryngeal tumors such as esophageal cancer Hoarseness can also occur after compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, such as lung cancer, thyroid tumors, and mediastinal tumors.

4, vocal cord paralysis can also appear hoarse. Bilateral vocal cord paralysis can also cause breathing difficulties. 5. Sudden loss of sound, or as low as whispering, but laughter and cough can be completely normal, may be hysterical hoarseness. At this time, the laryngoscope showed abnormal vocal cord adduction, but the vocal cord adduction was normal after coughing.

6. Throat foreign body sensation, accompanied by cough, easy to get tired of sounds, or eating before bedtime, or frequent regurgitation, belching, or reflux pharyngitis.

7. In addition, trauma, including dislocation of the ring and sacroiliac joints, and physical and chemical damage to the throat can cause hoarseness. Hoarseness requires a laryngoscopy to determine the cause and effective treatment.

The general cough is hoarse and the coughs are dry. When inhaling, the throat will be accompanied by a whistle-like sound, and when coughing, there will be a rattling sound, which will gradually increase. Acute laryngitis in children is prone to vocal cord edema and should be treated in time to avoid life-threatening. Can do fiber laryngoscope and local X-ray examination, blood analysis, inspection with throat inspection and neck palpation.

Differential diagnosis of hoarseness:

1. Allergic cough, also known as cough variant asthma. The cough of most children is irritating dry cough, and some are accompanied by a small amount of sputum. When the cough is severe, sometimes the lungs can hear an acute; beep. And cough mostly only at night or early morning, or exacerbated after exercise and crying. Symptoms often recur or persist for more than a month, and there is no noticeable improvement after administration of antibacterial drugs.

2. Hoarseness: Hoarseness, or hoarseness, refers to the loss of round and clear sound quality when speaking. The clinical manifestations have varying degrees of sound quality change, the lightest is called Mao, that is, there is a certain degree of sound quality change when the treble is made, and the sound becomes rough. The sound quality of almost all tones of the sand finger has changed. A moderate change in sound quality is called hissing. At this time, in addition to the rough and impure parentage, there is still air leakage, indicating that there is a clear gap in the vocal cords on both sides. Severe sound quality change is called dumb, that is, the glottis gap is large when vocalizing, the vocal cords cannot vibrate and can only whisper.

The general cough is hoarse and the coughs are dry. When inhaling, the throat will be accompanied by a whistle-like sound, and when coughing, there will be a rattling sound, which will gradually increase. Acute laryngitis in children is prone to vocal cord edema and should be treated in time to avoid life-threatening.

1. Treat acute laryngitis in time to prevent it from becoming chronic.

2, to prevent excessive use of voice, for teachers, literary and art workers to pay attention to the correct method of sound, especially during colds.

3. Strengthen labor protection, and properly deal with the harmful gas and dust in the production process.

4. Properly ban the sound when onset, avoid excessive voice use, quit smoking and drinking habits, and actively treat adjacent organ lesions.