If your child has Chronic Cough please print and answer these questions before seeing your clinician:
1. How many days or weeks is cough going on?
2. Is there a fever? How high? How many days?
3. Is the cough worse after running or playing?
4. Is the cough at night, morning, or all day?
5. Does the cough have any peculiar character? Is there whooping?
6. Are there other associated symptoms ( abdominal pain, itchy throat, runny nose) ?
7. Has the child been sick previously with bronchitis or pneumonia?
8. What aggravates or triggers the cough?
9 Did your child choked on a food or small object when the cough started?
10. Is there TB, allergy, asthma, or cystic fibrosis in the family?
You child's clinician might ask more questions depending on your answers.